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  r83837 | thomas.heller | 2010-08-08 19:58:53 +0200 (So, 08 Aug 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix issue5504: ctypes does now work with systems where mmap can't be
  PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
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  r83841 | thomas.heller | 2010-08-08 20:16:20 +0200 (So, 08 Aug 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix issue6869: refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
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+- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't
+  be PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
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 - Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute)
   are now included in the set of attributes copied by default by
   functools.wraps and functools.update_wrapper.  Patch by Terrence Cole.