What happens when you grow claws while wearing cursed gloves?

Question

In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, what happens when you grow claws while you wear cursed gloves?

Answer 1

If your claw mutation reaches level 3 (You have claws for hands.), then any gloves are forcibly removed, regardless of whether they are cursed or not.

The same thing happens with boots and the talon / hooves mutations, as well as helmets and the horns, antennae and beak mutations.

The relevant source code calls a function in the transformation code path used for melding items into your body. That code does not bother to check the cursed status of an item.

Answer 2

I haven't had this happen with gloves, but I once grew hooves while wearing cursed boots, and they dropped off. Presumably the same thing will happen with gloves.