Blocked revisions 79843-79844 via svnmerge

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  r79843 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 17:46:09 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #8259: Get rid of 'outrageous left shift count' error when
  left-shifting an integer by more than 2**31 on a 64-bit machine.  Also
  convert shift counts to a Py_ssize_t instead of a C long.
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  r79844 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 17:47:55 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Misc/NEWS entry for r79843.
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