diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 03c65e34b6e..bcae239b6ad 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -4217,7 +4217,7 @@ 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