the assumption is made that the result will fit into a PyInt.
obviously, on a 32-bit system, where SIZEOF_LONG is 4 bytes,
that ain't happening.

a complex test would be something like this:

if len <= 9: it's an int, definitely.
if len > 10: it's a long, definitely.
if len == 10, and first char is a "-", it's an int, definitely
if len == 10, and first char is 5,6,7,8,9, it's a long, definitely.
if len == 10, and first char is 0,1,2,3, it's an int, definitely.
if len == 10, and first char is 4, it _might_ be a long, but it might
also be an int, so... uh... let's assume it's a long!

and you know what?  xxxx that for a game of soldiers: just use
"if len >= 10" assume it's a long :)




diff --git a/Modules/cPickle.c b/Modules/cPickle.c
index 537276c..e56f8e5 100644
--- a/Modules/cPickle.c
+++ b/Modules/cPickle.c
@@ -3143,7 +3143,15 @@ load_int(Unpicklerobject *self)
    errno = 0;
    l = strtol(s, &endptr, 0);

-   if (errno || (*endptr != '\n') || (endptr[1] != '\0')) {
+   if (errno || (*endptr != '\n') || (endptr[1] != '\0')
+#if SIZEOF_LONG == 4
+        /* integers of 10 chars or over could be bigger than 32-bit.
+         * just keep it simple: 10 or more chars, it goes into
+         * a PyLong.
+         */
+        || (len >= 10)
+#endif
+       ) {
        /* Hm, maybe we've got something long.  Let's try reading
           it as a Python long object. */
        errno = 0;