diff --git a/libcxx/include/sstream b/libcxx/include/sstream
--- a/libcxx/include/sstream
+++ b/libcxx/include/sstream
@@ -479,13 +479,7 @@
                    const_cast<char_type*>(__str_.data()) + __str_.size());
         if (__mode_ & (ios_base::app | ios_base::ate))
         {
-            while (__sz > INT_MAX)
-            {
-                this->pbump(INT_MAX);
-                __sz -= INT_MAX;
-            }
-            if (__sz > 0)
-                this->pbump(__sz);
+            this->__pbump(__sz);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -619,7 +613,7 @@
     if (__wch & ios_base::out)
     {
         this->setp(this->pbase(), this->epptr());
-        this->pbump(__noff);
+        this->__pbump(__noff);
     }
     return pos_type(__noff);
 }
diff --git a/libcxx/test/std/input.output/string.streams/stringstream.members/gcount.pass.cpp b/libcxx/test/std/input.output/string.streams/stringstream.members/gcount.pass.cpp
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libcxx/test/std/input.output/string.streams/stringstream.members/gcount.pass.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+// <sstream>
+
+// Test that tellp() does not break the stringstream after INT_MAX, due to use
+// of pbump() that accept int.
+
+#include <string>
+#include <sstream>
+#include <cassert>
+
+int main(int, char**) {
+#if __SIZE_WIDTH__ == 64
+  std::stringstream ss;
+  std::string payload(1 << 20, 'A');
+
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < (2ULL << 30) - payload.size(); i += payload.size()) {
+    assert(ss.tellp() != -1);
+    ss.write(payload.data(), payload.size());
+  }
+
+  assert(ss.tellp() != -1);
+  ss.write(payload.data(), payload.size());
+
+  assert(ss.tellp() != -1);
+  ss.write(payload.data(), payload.size());
+#endif
+
+  return 0;
+}