fix "debug_trace_code_generation": use truncating instead of just seeking which is not enough to remove an unused marker as it may not get overwritten afterwards

test: assert that isinf returns -1 for negative infinity

Fixes for buffer protocol docs

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Makes sure (and documents, in a sense) that isinf's declaration as returning
a bint preserves its C semantics.

This will be useful for, e.g., implementing a fake cythonize that
can leverage the deductions made by the real cythonize, but could
have other uses as well.

Their temporaries can't be references.

Docs: how to implement PEP 3118, the buffer protocol