Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the io module under AIX
and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
In addition, I made explicit the signedness of all bitfields in the
IO library.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1cc8f74..89cbf3c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
+ and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
+
- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6