> Looks as this patch makes buildbots crash.

Yep. It took me some minutes to find that the crash was caused by this issue :-p

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/5930/steps/test/logs/stdio

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[117/393/1] test_bigmem
Assertion failed: 0, file c:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\objects\stringlib/fastsearch.h, line 76
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x000010ec (most recent call first):
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\test_bigmem.py", line 294 in test_rfind
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\support\__init__.py", line 1641 in wrapper
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\case.py", line 577 in run
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\case.py", line 625 in __call__
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\suite.py", line 122 in run
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\suite.py", line 84 in __call__
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\suite.py", line 122 in run
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\suite.py", line 84 in __call__
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\unittest\runner.py", line 176 in run
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\support\__init__.py", line 1773 in _run_suite
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\support\__init__.py", line 1807 in run_unittest
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\test_bigmem.py", line 1252 in test_main
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