From 1ec981d04fec456eb55b91bf0340080f8ee9ef46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hahn <thomas.hahn01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:09:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow PyObject* as return types in functions

---
 src/tools/clair-c2py/worker.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/clair-c2py/worker.cpp b/src/tools/clair-c2py/worker.cpp
index fe545b3..954e1d2 100644
--- a/src/tools/clair-c2py/worker.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/clair-c2py/worker.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ bool worker_t::check_convertibility(clang::FunctionDecl const *f, bool test_retu
   }
   if (test_return_type) {
     auto ty = f->getReturnType();
-    if (ty->isPointerType()) {
+    if (ty->isPointerType() and (ty->getPointeeType().getAsString() != "PyObject")) {
       if (emit_error) clu::emit_error(f, "c2py: Can not convert a raw C++ pointer to python");
       ok = false;
     } else if ((not ty->isVoidType()) and (not clu::satisfy_concept(ty, this->IsConvertibleC2Py, this->ci))