diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index df4a09b9557..3d9015770d2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- 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 7b8de90020e..2db37d3fbe8 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@ textiowrapper_tell(textio *self, PyObject *args)
     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;