Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
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 - Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
   compiler.