Issue #23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the
result of sendto() instead of the C int type.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7deb820..66ecff1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the
+  result of sendto() instead of the C int type.
+
 - Issue #21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
 
 - Issue #23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index e9e482e..b6f2bf5 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -3366,7 +3366,8 @@
     char *buf;
     Py_ssize_t len, arglen;
     sock_addr_t addrbuf;
-    int addrlen, n = -1, flags, timeout;
+    int addrlen, flags, timeout;
+    Py_ssize_t n = -1;
 
     flags = 0;
     arglen = PyTuple_Size(args);