configure uses similar compiler flags as setup.py when doing the zlib test.

Without this patch configure would use the first shared library on the linker
path, with this patch it uses the first shared or static library on that path
just like setup.py.

foreign function argtypes sequence as long as they provide a
from_param method, no longer is it required that the object is a
ctypes type.

resulting Windows access violation will not be run by default.

returns a borrowed ref.  Many of the calls are open to attack.

Add a new function uses_seh() to the _ctypes extension module.  This
will return True if Windows Structured Exception handling (SEH) is
used when calling functions, False otherwise.

Fixes #1517388.

- change the pyexpat wrapper to not be so sensitive to this detail of the
  Expat implementation (the ex-crasher test still passes)

contains only the changes related to leaking the copy variable.

str() or repr()) would work, just not multi-value tuples. Probably not a
backport candidate, since it changes the behaviour of passing a
single-element tuple:

>>> string.Template("$foo").substitute(dict(foo=(1,)))

'(1,)'

versus

'1'

containing bitfields may have different layout on MSVC and MingW .

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.