bpo-37732: Fix GCC warning in _PyObject_Malloc() (GH-15333)

pymalloc_alloc() now returns directly the pointer, return NULL on
memory allocation error.

allocate_from_new_pool() already uses NULL as marker for "allocation
failed".

Objects/obmalloc.c

@@ -1580,29 +1580,29 @@ allocate_from_new_pool(uint size)
 
 /* pymalloc allocator
 
-   Return 1 if pymalloc allocated memory and wrote the pointer into *ptr_p.
+   Return a pointer to newly allocated memory if pymalloc allocated memory.
 
-   Return 0 if pymalloc failed to allocate the memory block: on bigger
+   Return NULL if pymalloc failed to allocate the memory block: on bigger
    requests, on error in the code below (as a last chance to serve the request)
    or when the max memory limit has been reached.
 */
-static inline int
-pymalloc_alloc(void *ctx, void **ptr_p, size_t nbytes)
+static inline void*
+pymalloc_alloc(void *ctx, size_t nbytes)
 {
 #ifdef WITH_VALGRIND
     if (UNLIKELY(running_on_valgrind == -1)) {
         running_on_valgrind = RUNNING_ON_VALGRIND;
     }
     if (UNLIKELY(running_on_valgrind)) {
-        return 0;
+        return NULL;
     }
 #endif
 
     if (UNLIKELY(nbytes == 0)) {
-        return 0;
+        return NULL;
     }
     if (UNLIKELY(nbytes > SMALL_REQUEST_THRESHOLD)) {
-        return 0;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     uint size = (uint)(nbytes - 1) >> ALIGNMENT_SHIFT;
@@ -1616,6 +1616,7 @@ pymalloc_alloc(void *ctx, void **ptr_p, size_t nbytes)
          */
         ++pool->ref.count;
         bp = pool->freeblock;
+        assert(bp != NULL);
 
         if (UNLIKELY((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) == NULL)) {
             // Reached the end of the free list, try to extend it.
@@ -1627,22 +1628,17 @@ pymalloc_alloc(void *ctx, void **ptr_p, size_t nbytes)
          * available:  use a free pool.
          */
         bp = allocate_from_new_pool(size);
-        if (UNLIKELY(bp == NULL)) {
-            return 0;
-        }
     }
 
-    assert(bp != NULL);
-    *ptr_p = (void *)bp;
-    return 1;
+    return (void *)bp;
 }
 
 
 static void *
 _PyObject_Malloc(void *ctx, size_t nbytes)
 {
-    void* ptr;
-    if (LIKELY(pymalloc_alloc(ctx, &ptr, nbytes))) {
+    void* ptr = pymalloc_alloc(ctx, nbytes);
+    if (LIKELY(ptr != NULL)) {
         return ptr;
     }
 
@@ -1657,12 +1653,11 @@ _PyObject_Malloc(void *ctx, size_t nbytes)
 static void *
 _PyObject_Calloc(void *ctx, size_t nelem, size_t elsize)
 {
-    void* ptr;
-
     assert(elsize == 0 || nelem <= (size_t)PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / elsize);
     size_t nbytes = nelem * elsize;
 
-    if (LIKELY(pymalloc_alloc(ctx, &ptr, nbytes))) {
+    void* ptr = pymalloc_alloc(ctx, nbytes);
+    if (LIKELY(ptr != NULL)) {
         memset(ptr, 0, nbytes);
         return ptr;
     }