MAINT: use tmp pointers to allow early break; add tests, release note

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
index 2f2882ac4..05f01ad82 100644
--- a/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
@@ -6279,10 +6279,20 @@ class TestMatmul(MatmulCommon):
     def test_matmul_bool(self):
         # gh-14439
         a = np.array([[1, 0],[1, 1]], dtype=bool)
-        assert np.max(a.view(np.int8)) == 1
+        assert np.max(a.view(np.uint8)) == 1
         b = np.matmul(a, a)
         # matmul with boolean output should always be 0, 1
-        assert np.max(b.view(np.int8)) == 1
+        assert np.max(b.view(np.uint8)) == 1
+
+        rg = np.random.default_rng(np.random.PCG64(43))
+        d = rg.integers(2, size=4*5, dtype=np.int8)
+        d = d.reshape(4, 5) > 0
+        out1 = np.matmul(d, d.reshape(5, 4))
+        out2 = np.dot(d, d.reshape(5, 4))
+        assert_equal(out1, out2)
+
+        c = np.matmul(np.zeros((2, 0), dtype=bool), np.zeros(0, dtype=bool))
+        assert not np.any(c)
 
 
 if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 5):