Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[email protected]> added the comment:

LLP64 is the model chosen by the Microsoft compiler: sizeof(long)==4.

I suppose someone already considered to change PyIntObject and use size_t 
values, but IMO it would have broken too many extensions: the pattern "if 
(PyInt_Check(obj)) value=PyInt_AS_LONG(obj);" is very very common.

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