convince gcc (4.0.x) the variables are never used uninitialized (and raising
a proper exception if they ever are.)

(PyMarshal_ReadShortFromFile() is only used in zipimport.c, I don't believe
the extra initializations will matter one way or another.)

everywhere else?)

the sentinel value in the main function, rather than the helper. This
function could possibly do with an early-out if any of the helper calls ends
up with a len of 0, but I doubt it really matters (how common are malformed
hangul syllables, really?)

exception, it should not be propagated up.  With unit tests.

Much of the peephole optimizer is now indented badly, but it's about
to be revised anyway.

and set svn:eol-style to native, on some text files.

specified.  Hopefully this wll bring warming to Tim's Windows-loving heart.

available %zd format character. Mark with an XXX comment so we can fix this,
later.

posix__getfullpathname().

In partial answer to the now-deleted XXX comment:

	/* XXX(twouters) Why use 'et#' here at all? insize isn't used */

`insize` is an input parameter too, and it was left uninitialized,
leading to seemingly random failures.

expression for the hell of it.

added message attribute compared to the previous version of Exception.  It is
also a new-style class, making all exceptions now new-style.  KeyboardInterrupt
and SystemExit inherit from BaseException directly.  String exceptions now
raise DeprecationWarning.

Applies patch 1104669, and closes bugs 1012952 and 518846.