Fudge.  stropmodule and stringobject both had copies of the buggy
mymemXXX stuff, and they were already out of synch.  Fix the remaining
bugs in both and get them back in synch.
Bugfix release candidate.
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 4c68972..ec909db 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@
              const char *pat, int pat_len,	/* pattern string to find */
              const char *sub, int sub_len,	/* substitution string */
              int count,				/* number of replacements */
-             int *out_len)
+	     int *out_len)
 {
 	char *out_s;
 	char *new_s;
@@ -1557,47 +1557,56 @@
 
 	/* find length of output string */
 	nfound = mymemcnt(str, len, pat, pat_len);
-	if (count < 0)
-		count = INT_MAX;
-	else if (nfound > count)
-		nfound = count;
+	if (count > 0)
+		nfound = nfound > count ? count : nfound;
 	if (nfound == 0)
 		goto return_same;
+
 	new_len = len + nfound*(sub_len - pat_len);
-
-	new_s = (char *)PyMem_MALLOC(new_len);
-	if (new_s == NULL) return NULL;
-
-	*out_len = new_len;
-	out_s = new_s;
-
-	while (len > 0) {
-		/* find index of next instance of pattern */
-		offset = mymemfind(str, len, pat, pat_len);
-		/* if not found,  break out of loop */
-		if (offset == -1) break;
-
-		/* copy non matching part of input string */
-		memcpy(new_s, str, offset); /* copy part of str before pat */
-		str += offset + pat_len; /* move str past pattern */
-		len -= offset + pat_len; /* reduce length of str remaining */
-
-		/* copy substitute into the output string */
-		new_s += offset; /* move new_s to dest for sub string */
-		memcpy(new_s, sub, sub_len); /* copy substring into new_s */
-		new_s += sub_len; /* offset new_s past sub string */
-
-		/* break when we've done count replacements */
-		if (--count == 0) break;
+	if (new_len == 0) {
+		/* Have to allocate something for the caller to free(). */
+		out_s = (char *)PyMem_MALLOC(1);
+		if (out_s = NULL)
+			return NULL;
+		out_s[0] = '\0';
 	}
-	/* copy any remaining values into output string */
-	if (len > 0)
-		memcpy(new_s, str, len);
+	else {
+		assert(new_len > 0);
+		new_s = (char *)PyMem_MALLOC(new_len);
+		if (new_s == NULL)
+			return NULL;
+		out_s = new_s;
+
+		while (len > 0) {
+			/* find index of next instance of pattern */
+			offset = mymemfind(str, len, pat, pat_len);
+			if (offset == -1)
+				break;
+
+			/* copy non matching part of input string */
+			memcpy(new_s, str, offset);
+			str += offset + pat_len;
+			len -= offset + pat_len;
+
+			/* copy substitute into the output string */
+			new_s += offset;
+			memcpy(new_s, sub, sub_len);
+			new_s += sub_len;
+
+			/* note count==0 is effectively infinity */
+			if (--count == 0)
+				break;
+		}
+		/* copy any remaining values into output string */
+		if (len > 0)
+			memcpy(new_s, str, len);
+	}
+	*out_len = new_len;
 	return out_s;
 
   return_same:
 	*out_len = -1;
-	return (char*)str;	/* have to cast away constness here */
+	return (char *)str; /* cast away const */
 }