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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2008-09-03 18:58:51 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2008-09-03 18:58:51 (GMT)
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Issue #3696: Error parsing arguments on OpenBSD <= 4.4 and Cygwin.
Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, reviewed by me.
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3696: Error parsing arguments on OpenBSD <= 4.4 and Cygwin. On
+ these systems, the mbstowcs() function is slightly buggy and must be
+ replaced with strlen() for the purpose of counting of number of wide
+ characters needed to represent the multi-byte character string.
+
- Issue #3697: "Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow"
could be easily encountered under Windows in debug mode when exercising
the recursion limit checking code, due to bogus handling of recursion