compiling the printf %zd check.

 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.5-cross-printf.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

patch to make cross compilation of the chflags check easier:

 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-chflags-cross.patch?rev=1.1

the maildir toc cache refresh date before actually refreshing the cache.

(see #6896)

Solaris due to not flushing the input buffer.

This change also incorporates some additional getpass implementation
suggestions for security based on an analysis of getpass.c linked to from the
issue.

from a gcc inline assembler peculiarity. (gcc's "A" constraint
apparently means 'rax or rdx' in 64-bit mode, not edx:eax
or rdx:rax as one might expect.)

Deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof, and document the replacement function PyOS_string_to_double.

docstring more descriptive instead.

leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
:func:hread._count().

Use constants instead of magic integers for test result.  Do not re-run with --verbose3 for environment changing tests.