#14254: OverflowErrors in TripleDictEraser
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       Reporter:  jdemeyer  |         Owner:  robertwb
           Type:  defect    |        Status:  new     
       Priority:  blocker   |     Milestone:  sage-5.8
      Component:  coercion  |    Resolution:          
       Keywords:            |   Work issues:          
Report Upstream:  N/A       |     Reviewers:          
        Authors:            |     Merged in:          
   Dependencies:            |      Stopgaps:          
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Comment (by jdemeyer):

 Replying to [comment:12 SimonKing]:
 > I found the following on [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353/ PEP
 353]:
 > {{{
 > Conceptually, Py_intptr_t and Py_ssize_t are different things:
 Py_intptr_t needs
 > to be the same size as void*, and Py_ssize_t the same size as size_t.
 These could
 > differ, e.g. on machines where pointers have segment and offset. On
 current
 > flat-address space machines, there is no difference, so for all
 practical purposes,
 > Py_intptr_t would have worked as well.
 > }}}
 > Note that we actually ''do'' want a conversion from and to <void*>. So,
 shouldn't we actually use Py_intptr_t, not Py_ssize_t?

 That's all true but it wouldn't solve this error.

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