This closes SF patch #504215.

This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error.  (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)

still in use, for Apple Mac OSX.

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

declarations yet, those come later.

The common technique for printing out a pointer has been to cast to a long
and use the "%lx" printf modifier. This is incorrect on Win64 where casting
to a long truncates the pointer. The "%p" formatter should be used instead.

The problem as stated by Tim:
> Unfortunately, the C committee refused to define what %p conversion "looks
> like" -- they explicitly allowed it to be implementation-defined. Older
> versions of Microsoft C even stuck a colon in the middle of the address (in
> the days of segment+offset addressing)!

The result is that the hex value of a pointer will maybe/maybe not have a 0x
prepended to it.


Notes on the patch:

There are two main classes of changes:
- in the various repr() functions that print out pointers
- debugging printf's in the various thread_*.h files (these are why the
patch is large)


Closes SourceForge patch #100505.

names in the source code (they already had those for the linker,
through some smart macros; but the source still had the old, un-Py names).

Note: waitflag not supported on NT.

bltinmodule.c: fixed coerce() nightmare in ternary pow().
modsupport.c (initmodule2): pass METH_FREENAME flag to newmethodobject().
pythonrun.c: move flushline() into and around print_error().

compile.c: lists and dictionary in code objects become tuples
import.c: bump MAGIC
thread*.[ch]: added thread_ident() function
version.c: added '++' to version number and bumped date

Added Tim Peters' pthread version.