news about this and a couple other recent fixes.

64-bit machines that require pointers to be aligned (e.g. IA64)

Add metadata example

Export the COM entry point functions.

Note that there are several conflicting base addresses defined for
other extensions, also not all are listed in dllbase_nt.txt.

are concerned.

Fixes part of #1445210.

This may be causing the debian sparc buildbot to fail.
Print a little message to let the user ^w buildbot know it's still thinking.

We may want to adjust the time period which is currently 5 minutes.

Will backport.

using a C++ compiler. Still lots and lots of errors in the modules built by
setup.py, and a bunch of warnings from g++ in the core.

prepends the exception's module name to non-builtin exceptions, like
the interpreter itself does.

broke a number of doctests. should be discussed before checking in (see
discussion on python-dev).