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Additionally-- the PyMem_NEW()/PyMem_New() macro's need to be fixed:
 231 static
 232 PyUnicodeObject *_PyUnicode_New(Py_ssize_t length)
 233 {
 234 register PyUnicodeObject *unicode;
 235 
 236 /* Optimization for empty strings */
 237 if (length == 0 && unicode_empty != NULL) {
 238 Py_INCREF(unicode_empty);
 239 return unicode_empty;
 240 }
 241 
 242 /* Unicode freelist & memory allocation */
 243 if (unicode_freelist) {
 244 unicode = unicode_freelist;
 245 unicode_freelist = *(PyUnicodeObject **)unicode;
 246 unicode_freelist_size--;
 247 if (unicode->str) {
 248 /* Keep-Alive optimization: we only upsize the buffer,
 249 never downsize it. */
 250 if ((unicode->length < length) &&
 251 unicode_resize(unicode, length) < 0) {
 252 PyMem_DEL(unicode->str);
 253 goto onError;
 254 }
 255 }
 256 else {
 257 unicode->str = PyMem_NEW(Py_UNICODE, length + 1);
 258 }
 85 #define PyMem_New(type, n) \
 86 ( assert((n) <= PY_SIZE_MAX / sizeof(type)) , \
 87 ( (type *) PyMem_Malloc((n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
 88 #define PyMem_NEW(type, n) \
 89 ( assert((n) <= PY_SIZE_MAX / sizeof(type)) , \
 90 ( (type *) PyMem_MALLOC((n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
 91 
 92 #define PyMem_Resize(p, type, n) \
 93 ( assert((n) <= PY_SIZE_MAX / sizeof(type)) , \
 94 ( (p) = (type *) PyMem_Realloc((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
 95 #define PyMem_RESIZE(p, type, n) \
 96 ( assert((n) <= PY_SIZE_MAX / sizeof(type)) , \
 97 ( (p) = (type *) PyMem_REALLOC((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
It looks like much of this is reachable from modules, unicode objects,
dict objects, set objects, et cetera. Also, if a 2G string across the
network seems unrealistic consider what 2 billion A's compresses down
to.(Macros again taken from 2.5.2 vanilla)