bpo-41531: Fix compilation of dict literals with more than 0xFFFF elements (GH-21850) (GH-22107)

(cherry picked from commit c51db0ea40ddabaf5f771ea633b37fcf4c90a495)

Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_compile.py b/Lib/test/test_compile.py
index 566ca27..55716fd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_compile.py
@@ -750,6 +750,16 @@
             self.assertEqual(None, opcodes[0].argval)
             self.assertEqual('RETURN_VALUE', opcodes[1].opname)
 
+    def test_big_dict_literal(self):
+        # The compiler has a flushing point in "compiler_dict" that calls compiles
+        # a portion of the dictionary literal when the loop that iterates over the items
+        # reaches 0xFFFF elements but the code was not including the boundary element,
+        # dropping the key at position 0xFFFF. See bpo-41531 for more information
+
+        dict_size = 0xFFFF + 1
+        the_dict = "{" + ",".join(f"{x}:{x}" for x in range(dict_size)) + "}"
+        self.assertEqual(len(eval(the_dict)), dict_size)
+
 class TestExpressionStackSize(unittest.TestCase):
     # These tests check that the computed stack size for a code object
     # stays within reasonable bounds (see issue #21523 for an example