Yeah I think your change is enough. Adding a cast would solve this compiler warning: Python/random.c:168:17: warning: conversion to ‘int’ from ‘long int’ may alter its value [-Wconversion] n = syscall(SYS_getrandom, dest, n, flags); ^ But on the other hand, when I just recompiled Python with -Wconversion, I got hundreds of other warnings, so maybe there is a good reason we don’t enable that warning.