Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit platforms.
Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index df4a09b..3d90157 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -284,6 +284,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
+  platforms.  Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
+
 - Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li).
 
 - Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the
diff --git a/Modules/_io/textio.c b/Modules/_io/textio.c
index 7b8de90..2db37d3 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@
     while (input < input_end) {
         Py_ssize_t n;
 
-        DECODER_DECODE(input, 1, n);
+        DECODER_DECODE(input, (Py_ssize_t)1, n);
         /* We got n chars for 1 byte */
         chars_decoded += n;
         cookie.bytes_to_feed += 1;