The attempt to protect against MS_WIN16 compilers that do not support long

string literals has not been tested on an MS_WIN16 platform; the trailing
";" was inside the #ifndef MS_WIN16, which should cause an error (missing
semi-colon) when compiled with that symbol #defined.

diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 2ae6d20f5c7af1276f07bd23616329459d731578..99a6ff76e41207a43b5901be33185b701ad9e8a6 100644 (file)
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -379,8 +379,9 @@ getrefcount() -- return the reference count for an object (plus one :-)\n\
 setcheckinterval() -- control how often the interpreter checks for events\n\
 setprofile() -- set the global profiling function\n\
 settrace() -- set the global debug tracing function\n\
-";
+"
 #endif
+/* end of sys_doc */ ;
 
 PyObject *
 _PySys_Init(void)