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    Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in · 7b9542a3
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    native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Standard mode
    will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
    likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
    sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
    on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
    I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
    to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
    conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).
    
    test_struct.py:  In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
    got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
    native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).
    
    libstruct.tex:  In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
    later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
    7b9542a3
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