diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 06e17e69f84..72bfb8373a7 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -3737,7 +3737,7 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_AsASCIIString(PyObject *unicode)
 
 /* --- MBCS codecs for Windows -------------------------------------------- */
 
-#if SIZEOF_INT < SIZEOF_SSIZE_T
+#if SIZEOF_INT < SIZEOF_SIZE_T
 #define NEED_RETRY
 #endif