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  r69505 | thomas.heller | 2009-02-10 19:43:01 +0100 (Di, 10 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue#5203: ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
  function without argtypes, if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false.
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 Library
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+- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
+  function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
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 - Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
   under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.