Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary ST->AST compilation code
dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was
mutating the ST, causing a second compilation to fail. (The peephole
optimizer already takes care of optimizing this case, so there's no
lost optimization opportunity here.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0de8581..9c5ea77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST
+ compilation code dealing with unary minus applied to a constant.
+ The removed code was mutating the ST, causing a second compilation
+ to fail.
+
- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error