[issue9778] Make hash values the same width as a pointer (or Py_ssize_t)

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I'm the maintainer of a third-party library (gmpy) that would be
> impacted by this and I'm definitely in favor of this change.

Assume Python would make such a change, and users would build released
gmpy versions for such a Python release. What would happen (in terms
of observable errors)?

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