Added NEWS entry, plus:
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r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fr, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines
Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
function pointer is called.
Will backport to release25-maint.
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Core and builtins
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+- Prevent a segfault when a ctypes NULL function pointer is called.
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- Bug #1517: Possible segfault in lookup().
- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.