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+- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
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 - Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
 
 - Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the