bpo-46323: Allow alloca(0) for python callback function of ctypes (GH-31249)

diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.c b/Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.c
index 591b944d76fcbef77a34646f1fc05ede1dfc345e..6037f5fd842860895b039ce0ec8dcf02f4a0d478 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.c
@@ -165,11 +165,7 @@ static void _CallPythonObject(void *mem,
     assert(PyTuple_Check(converters));
     nargs = PyTuple_GET_SIZE(converters);
     assert(nargs <= CTYPES_MAX_ARGCOUNT);
-    PyObject **args = NULL;
-    if (nargs > 0) {
-        args = alloca(nargs * sizeof(PyObject *));
-    }
-
+    PyObject **args = alloca(nargs * sizeof(PyObject *));
     PyObject **cnvs = PySequence_Fast_ITEMS(converters);
     for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++) {
         PyObject *cnv = cnvs[i]; // borrowed ref