Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in

native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).

test_struct.py:  In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).

libstruct.tex:  In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.

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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 62df987..18a87e9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -140,6 +140,14 @@ Library
 
 - pprint functions now much faster for large containers (tuple, list, dict).
 
+- New 'q' and 'Q' format codes in the struct module, corresponding to C
+  types "long long" and "unsigned long long" (on Windows, __int64).  In
+  native mode, these can be used only when the platform C compiler supports
+  these types (when HAVE_LONG_LONG is #define'd by the Python config
+  process), and then they inherit the sizes and alignments of the C types.
+  XXX TODO In standard mode, 'q' and 'Q' are supported on all platforms, and
+  XXX TODO are 8-byte integral types.
+
 Tests
 
 - New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value