file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
user running the tests.

extensions with msvc9compiler.

in a Py_ssize_t, not an int.

Patch from James Henstridge.

access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
it.  Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.

arithmetic.

is outside the allowed range.

multi-architecture build (in particular when the architectures don't share
a common pointer size).

Fixed the same issue for SIZEOF_PTHREAD_T.

(No update to the NEWS file because this is a bugfix for an as yet unreleased
feature)

Thanks Robert Collins

Issue #3382: Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper case. Much of the patch came from Mark Dickinson.

compiler_add_o, use copysign instead of examining the first and last
bytes of the double.  The latter method fails for little-endian
ARM, OABI, where doubles are little-endian but with the words swapped.

Objects/floatobject.c and Objects/complexobject.c.  This should silence
compiler warnings about implicit declaration of the 'finite' function
on Solaris.

to indicate that semaphores aren't available;  define a new variable
POSIX_SEMAPHORES_NOT_ENABLED instead.

`storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
argument.  Patch by Pablo Mouzo.

(note: the patch also adds a test for the rest argument in retrbinary())