Proposed: Refactor C-style downcasts leading to UB, TC & NPD

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Issue Summary

Wed Jan 21 11:33:42 PM UTC 2026

Proposed: Refactor C-style downcasts leading to UB, TC & NPD in IccXML

UB unsafe casts in IccXML can be identified using:

grep -rn '([[:space:]]*CIcc[^)]*Xml[[:space:]]*\*[[:space:]]*)' IccXML/ --include="*.cpp" |   grep -v "new CIcc" | grep -v "//"

References

#499
#527
https://github.com/InternationalColorConsortium/iccDEV/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20downcast

Target Files

IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp:225:        CIccTagXml *pTagXml = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp:695:        CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp:749:      CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:2235:    pExt = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:2258:    pExt = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:2320:            CIccTagXml *pExt = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:2346:            CIccTagXml *pExt = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:3082:      if (!((CIccCurveXml *)pTag)->ToXml(xml, nType, blanks + "  "))
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:3094:    return ((CIccSegmentedCurveXml*)m_pCurve)->ToXml(xml, blanks);
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:3288:            CIccCurveXml *pCurveXml = (CIccCurveXml *)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:3305:            CIccTagXml *pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml *)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4000:          CIccMpeXml *pMpeXml = (CIccMpeXml*)pMpeExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4099:      CIccMpeXml* pXmlMpe = (CIccMpeXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4438:        CIccTagXml *pTagXml = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4633:        CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4677:      CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4805:      CIccTagXml *pTagXml = (CIccTagXml*)(pTag->GetExtension());
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:4915:        CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccTagXml.cpp:5140:  CIccProfileXml *pProfile = (CIccProfileXml*)m_pProfile;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccMpeXml.cpp:1573:    CIccTagXml *pTagXml = (CIccTagXml*)pTagEx;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccMpeXml.cpp:1632:      CIccTagXml* pXmlTag = (CIccTagXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccMpeXml.cpp:2321:          CIccMpeXml *pMpe = (CIccMpeXml*)pExt;
IccXML/IccLibXML/IccMpeXml.cpp:2614:            CIccMpeXml* pXmlMpe = (CIccMpeXml*)pExt;

Takeaway

These unsafe cast all bypass compiler checks currently leading to TC, UB & NPD.

• Request is to consider Refactoring when time permits