Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e9d692c..80a1a23 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
+ Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
+
- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no more produces illegal unicode strings.
- Issue #18739: Fix an inconsistency between math.log(n) and math.log(long(n));