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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
+
 - Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
   an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
   code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the