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GCC 7.1 shows a bunch onf warnings related to -Wnonnull and -Wint-in-bool-context when compiling Python 2.7:
In file included from Include/Python.h:78:0,
 from Objects/listobject.c:3:
Objects/listobject.c: In function ‘list_resize’:
Include/pymem.h:110:34: warning: ‘*’ in boolean context, suggest ‘&&’ instead [-Wint-in-bool-context]
 (type *) PyMem_REALLOC((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) )
 ^
Include/pymem.h:77:21: note: in definition of macro ‘PyMem_REALLOC’
 : realloc((p), (n) ? (n) : 1))
 ^
Objects/listobject.c:62:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘PyMem_RESIZE’
 PyMem_RESIZE(items, PyObject *, new_allocated);
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from Python/formatter_string.c:17:0:
Python/../Objects/stringlib/formatter.h: In function ‘format_float_internal’:
Python/../Objects/stringlib/formatter.h:576:9: warning: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Wnonnull]
 memmove(buf,
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~
 prefix,
 ~~~~~~~
 spec->n_prefix * sizeof(STRINGLIB_CHAR));
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from Include/Python.h:38:0,
 from Python/formatter_string.c:6:
/usr/include/string.h:47:14: note: in a call to function ‘memmove’ declared here
 extern void *memmove (void *__dest, const void *__src, size_t __n)

New changeset fd39e2a6845f33a74fbb0671c434c0d84a5ec2f3 by Christian Heimes in branch '2.7':
bpo-31474: Fix -Wint-in-bool-context warnings (#3581)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fd39e2a6845f33a74fbb0671c434c0d84a5ec2f3

This seems to have been fixed but never closed? Closing it now anyway due to EOL :)