[3.10] [3.11] gh-99952: fix refcount issues in ctypes.Structure from_param() result (GH-101339) (#101340)
[3.11] gh-99952: [ctypes] fix refcount issues in from_param() result. (GH-100169)
Fixes a reference counting issue with `ctypes.Structure` when a `from_param()` method call is used and the structure size is larger than a C pointer `sizeof(void*)`.
This problem existed for a very long time, but became more apparent in 3.8+ by change likely due to garbage collection cleanup timing changes..
(cherry picked from commit
dfad678d7024ab86d265d84ed45999e031a03691)
(cherry picked from commit
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Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Co-authored-by: Yukihiro Nakadaira <yukihiro.nakadaira@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>