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  r75007 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-21 23:17:48 +0200 (lun., 21 sept. 2009) | 7 lines

  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.
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 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.
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 - Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
 
 - Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.