Portation problem.

Include/dictobject.h defines PyDictEntry.me_hash as a Py_ssize_t. Everywhere else uses a C 'long' for hashes.

On the system I'm porting to, ints and pointers (and ssize_t) are 32-bit, but longs and long longs are 64-bit. Therefore, the assignments to me_hash truncate the hash and subsequent lookups fail.

I've changed the definition of me_hash to 'long' and (in Objects/dictobject.c) removed the casting from the various assignments and changed the definition of 'i' in dict_popitem(). This has fixed my immediate problems, but I guess I've just reintroduced whatever problem it got changed for. The comment in the header says:

/* Cached hash code of me_key.  Note that hash codes are C longs.
 * We have to use Py_ssize_t instead because dict_popitem() abuses
 * me_hash to hold a search finger.
 */

... but that doesn't really explain what it is about dict_popitem() that requires the different type.

Thanks. Kev.