[Bugfix] Prevent casting handle to other types #9114
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As we discussed in this post, a casting from handle to int or other types is actually undefined.
For example, when we try to cast a handle to bool, it will invoke
llvm::Constant* zero = llvm::ConstantInt::get(DTypeToLLVMType(from), 0);
, which means that we regard the from type isint
, but actually it ishandle
.src/target/llvm/codegen_llvm.cc - CodeGenLLVM::CreateCast:
And this undefined behavior may cause some other problems, like program crashes: