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Appease MSVC Warning C4866: compiler may not enforce left-to-right evaluation order #5953

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XuehaiPan Jan 7, 2026
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion include/pybind11/pybind11.h
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Expand Up @@ -1081,7 +1081,10 @@ class cpp_function : public function {
dict kwargs;
for (size_t i = 0; i < used_kwargs.size(); ++i) {
if (!used_kwargs[i]) {
kwargs[PyTuple_GET_ITEM(kwnames_in, i)] = args_in_arr[n_args_in + i];
// Appease MSVC C4866: compiler may not enforce left-to-right
// evaluation order
PyObject *const arg_in_arr = args_in_arr[n_args_in + i];
kwargs[PyTuple_GET_ITEM(kwnames_in, i)] = arg_in_arr;
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The warning still exists. The problem may be that the order of key casting and assignment is not well-defined.

  C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-tsdbyp__\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pybind11\include\pybind11\pybind11.h(1087,1): error C2220: the following warning is treated as an error [C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmph2yqzrcl.build-temp\Release\src\_C.vcxproj]
  C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-tsdbyp__\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pybind11\include\pybind11\pybind11.h(1087,1): warning C4866: compiler may not enforce left-to-right evaluation order for call to 'pybind11::detail::object_api<pybind11::handle>::operator[]' [C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmph2yqzrcl.build-temp\Release\src\_C.vcxproj]

}
}
call.args.push_back(kwargs);
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