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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

As an example of padding behaviour (under Win64 with 32-bit longs and 64-bit pointers):

Python 3.2a1+ (py3k, Sep  4 2010, 22:50:10) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

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>>> import struct
>>> struct.calcsize("l")
4
>>> struct.calcsize("lP")
16
>>> struct.calcsize("lPP")
24

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