passing a string.  Martin already fixed the actual crash by ensuring
Py_UNICODE is unsigned.  As discussed on python-dev, this fix
removes the possibility of creating a unicode string from a raw buffer.

There is an outstanding question of how to fix the crash in 2.4.

appear.  Get rid of them by nuking doctest's default DocTestRunner
instance as part of cleanup().  Also cleanup() before running the
first test repetition (the test was run once before we get into
the -R branch).

news about this and a couple other recent fixes.

64-bit machines that require pointers to be aligned (e.g. IA64)

Add metadata example

Export the COM entry point functions.

Note that there are several conflicting base addresses defined for
other extensions, also not all are listed in dllbase_nt.txt.

are concerned.

Fixes part of #1445210.

This may be causing the debian sparc buildbot to fail.
Print a little message to let the user ^w buildbot know it's still thinking.

We may want to adjust the time period which is currently 5 minutes.

Will backport.