of bugs in that port. The most annoying ones were due to some subtle differences
between the document ABI and the actual implementation :-(

(there are no python unittests that fail without this patch, but without it
 some of libffi's unittests fail).

Fix build problems with the platform SDK on windows.  It is not sufficient to test for the C compiler version when determining if we have the secure CRT from microsoft.  Must test with an undocumented macro, __STDC_SECURE_LIB__ too.

   by improving the xref to the section on lists, and by
   copying the explanations of the arguments (with a slight modification).

read_until. Will backport to 2.4.

spec file generated by bdist_rpm.

and atof().

degrees and radians.

filling of arcs. Also fixes #1514693.

Fixes #1514703

will return True if Windows Structured Exception handling (SEH) is
used when calling functions, False otherwise.

Currently, only MSVC supports SEH.

Fix the test so that it doesn't crash when run with MingW compiled
_ctypes.  Note that two tests are still failing when mingw is used, I
suspect structure layout differences and function calling conventions
between MSVC and MingW.

It seems that the definition of '__attribute__(x)' was responsible for
the compiler ignoring the '__fastcall' attribute on the
ffi_closure_SYSV function in libffi_msvc/ffi.c, took me quite some
time to figure this out.

character before sending it to a custom converter. This has been fixed now.

handler would cause a segfault.  This merges in Expat's lib/xmlparse.c
revisions 1.154 and 1.155, which fix this and a closely related problem
(the later does not affect Python).

Moved the crasher test to the tests for xml.parsers.expat.

  (*should* be done by the presentation, but that requires changes all over)
- avoid spreading the __name meme

#ifdef WITH_THREADS/#endif blocks.  Found by Sam Rushing.

It makes the error message consistent and always sends to stderr.

It would be much better for all the networking tests to hit only python.org.

be called at the end of each test that spawns children (perhaps it
should be called from regrtest instead?).  This will hopefully prevent
some of the unexplained failures in the buildbots (hppa and alpha)
during tests that spawn children.  The problems were not reproducible.
There were many zombies that remained at the end of several tests.
In the worst case, this shouldn't cause any more problems,
though it may not help either.  Time will tell.

(modified patch by Sam Ruby; changed to use separate REs for start and end
 tags to reduce matching cost for end tags; extended tests; updated to avoid
 breaking previous changes to support IPv6 addresses in unquoted attribute
 values)