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  r78638 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-04 00:20:25 +0100 (jeu., 04 mars 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
  fatal error in low memory condition.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
+  a fatal error in low memory condition.
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 - Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
   the BOM check fails.