chore: help Coverty avoid generating a false positive. #4817
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Description
Please see #4814 for background.
This PR does not change the pybind11 behavior at all when
NDEBUG
is set.For Coverty use
-UNDEBUG
.The variable name change was helpful in determining that we think of the Coverty result as a false positive. The name change could be reverted, but is useful to keep (increases readability).
Suggested changelog entry:
An ``assert()`` was added to help Coverty avoid generating a false positive.