STINNER Victor added the comment:

Charles-François Natali:
> the crash occurs because the test doesn't reset the alarm (with alarm(0)) 
> upon exit, so if the alarm didn't go off during the test, it comes later when 
> the original signal handler has been reset, and the default handler just 
> exits.
> (...)
> Note that 3.4 and default aren't affected, because the alarm is properly 
> reset.

Right, I fixed this issue in the master branch: I proposed attached PR 3505 to 
backport the fix.

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nosy: +haypo

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