Many places have missing `PyErr_NoMemory()` call after failing memory allocation
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Crash report
remove_unused_constsinPython/flowgraph.c
When PyMem_Malloc(nconsts * sizeof(Py_ssize_t)); fails, we need to set an exception.
gethandlelistandgetattributelistin_winapi.c
This place misses it:
All other error paths set exceptions, except this if:
_channelends_newinModules/_interpchannelsmodule.c
Later we check for errors in handle_channel_error, it requires either setting err to non -1 or to set Python exception. Both are false, it fails with the assertion failure.
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