diff --git a/math/py-faiss/files/patch-swig b/math/py-faiss/files/patch-swig
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index 000000000000..1aa5f58bcbd8
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+++ b/math/py-faiss/files/patch-swig
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Obtained from:	https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/commit/d6854136afa3b987defb2c8e8108bad76ebdb949
+
+--- swigfaiss.swig.orig	2024-02-29 21:24:50 UTC
++++ swigfaiss.swig
+@@ -1022,14 +1022,14 @@ PyObject *swig_ptr (PyObject *a)
+         return SWIG_NewPointerObj(data, SWIGTYPE_p_bool, 0);
+     }
+     if(PyArray_TYPE(ao) == NPY_UINT64) {
+-#ifdef SWIGWORDSIZE64
++#if (__SIZEOF_LONG__ == 8)
+         return SWIG_NewPointerObj(data, SWIGTYPE_p_unsigned_long, 0);
+ #else
+         return SWIG_NewPointerObj(data, SWIGTYPE_p_unsigned_long_long, 0);
+ #endif
+     }
+     if(PyArray_TYPE(ao) == NPY_INT64) {
+-#ifdef SWIGWORDSIZE64
++#if  (__SIZEOF_LONG__ == 8)
+         return SWIG_NewPointerObj(data, SWIGTYPE_p_long, 0);
+ #else
+         return SWIG_NewPointerObj(data, SWIGTYPE_p_long_long, 0);