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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.
+
 - Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
 
 - Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6