in the hope of getting more information about the test_ctypes failures
on Sparc (see issue #8314).

command line option
patch from Brian Curtin

with a number of additional minor edits and typo corrections.

left-shifting an integer by more than 2**31 on a 64-bit machine.  Also
convert shift counts to a Py_ssize_t instead of a C long.

Spotted by the PyPy developers.

Original commit is:

branch:      trunk
user:        guido
date:        Mon Aug 19 21:32:04 1996 +0200
files:       Python/getargs.c
description:
[svn r6499] Support for keyword arguments (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords) donated by
Geoff Philbrick <philbric@delphi.hks.com> (slightly changed by me).

Also a little change to make the file acceptable to K&R C compilers
(HPUX, SunOS 4.x).

using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.

On slower Windows machines, waiting 0.1 seconds can sometimes not be
enough for a subprocess to start and be ready to accept signals, causing
the test to fail. One buildbot is also choking on input()/EOFError so
that was changed to not depend on input.

This fixes a test_decimal failure on FreeBSD 8.0.  (modf apparently
doesn't follow C99 Annex F on FreeBSD.)

widths.  Patch by Dave Malcolm.

srcdir != builddir.

Without this patch it is no longer possible to
build python when you don't run configure from
the root of the source tree.