diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
index 5be2d33..d61ff6e 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
@@ -154,6 +154,21 @@
     PyMemAllocatorDomain domain,
     PyMemAllocatorEx *old_alloc);
 
+/* Special bytes broadcast into debug memory blocks at appropriate times.
+   Strings of these are unlikely to be valid addresses, floats, ints or
+   7-bit ASCII.
+
+   - PYMEM_CLEANBYTE: clean (newly allocated) memory
+   - PYMEM_DEADBYTE dead (newly freed) memory
+   - PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE: untouchable bytes at each end of a block
+
+   Byte patterns 0xCB, 0xBB and 0xFB have been replaced with 0xCD, 0xDD and
+   0xFD to use the same values than Windows CRT debug malloc() and free().
+   If modified, _PyMem_IsPtrFreed() should be updated as well. */
+#define PYMEM_CLEANBYTE      0xCD
+#define PYMEM_DEADBYTE       0xDD
+#define PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE  0xFD
+
 /* Heuristic checking if a pointer value is newly allocated
    (uninitialized), newly freed or NULL (is equal to zero).
 
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 4223dc9..f9823f1 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -667,9 +667,6 @@
             Py_ssize_t len = 0;
             char onechar; /* For byte_converter() */
             Py_ssize_t alloc;
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
-            char *before;
-#endif
 
             fmt++;
             if (*fmt == '%') {
@@ -981,8 +978,8 @@
                 if (res == NULL)
                     goto error;
             }
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
-            before = res;
+#ifndef NDEBUG
+            char *before = res;
 #endif
 
             /* Write the sign if needed */
@@ -1047,7 +1044,7 @@
             }
             Py_XDECREF(temp);
 
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
+#ifndef NDEBUG
             /* check that we computed the exact size for this write */
             assert((res - before) == alloc);
 #endif
@@ -3168,8 +3165,9 @@
 {
     /* Set all attributes before small_buffer to 0 */
     memset(writer, 0, offsetof(_PyBytesWriter, small_buffer));
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
-    memset(writer->small_buffer, 0xCB, sizeof(writer->small_buffer));
+#ifndef NDEBUG
+    memset(writer->small_buffer, PYMEM_CLEANBYTE,
+           sizeof(writer->small_buffer));
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -3297,8 +3295,9 @@
         }
 
         writer->use_small_buffer = 0;
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
-        memset(writer->small_buffer, 0xDB, sizeof(writer->small_buffer));
+#ifndef NDEBUG
+        memset(writer->small_buffer, PYMEM_CLEANBYTE,
+               sizeof(writer->small_buffer));
 #endif
     }
     writer->allocated = allocated;
@@ -3350,7 +3349,7 @@
     assert(size >= 0);
 
     writer->use_small_buffer = 1;
-#ifdef Py_DEBUG
+#ifndef NDEBUG
     writer->allocated = sizeof(writer->small_buffer) - 1;
     /* In debug mode, don't use the full small buffer because it is less
        efficient than bytes and bytearray objects to detect buffer underflow
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
index 40c098d..50701db 100644
--- a/Objects/obmalloc.c
+++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -2031,20 +2031,6 @@
  * it wraps a real allocator, adding extra debugging info to the memory blocks.
  */
 
-/* Special bytes broadcast into debug memory blocks at appropriate times.
- * Strings of these are unlikely to be valid addresses, floats, ints or
- * 7-bit ASCII. If modified, _PyMem_IsPtrFreed() should be updated as well.
- *
- * Byte patterns 0xCB, 0xBB and 0xFB have been replaced with 0xCD, 0xDD and
- * 0xFD to use the same values than Windows CRT debug malloc() and free().
- */
-#undef CLEANBYTE
-#undef DEADBYTE
-#undef FORBIDDENBYTE
-#define CLEANBYTE      0xCD    /* clean (newly allocated) memory */
-#define DEADBYTE       0xDD    /* dead (newly freed) memory */
-#define FORBIDDENBYTE  0xFD    /* untouchable bytes at each end of a block */
-
 /* Uncomment this define to add the "serialno" field */
 /* #define PYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO */
 
@@ -2106,14 +2092,14 @@
 p[S]
     API ID.  See PEP 445.  This is a character, but seems undocumented.
 p[S+1: 2*S]
-    Copies of FORBIDDENBYTE.  Used to catch under- writes and reads.
+    Copies of PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE.  Used to catch under- writes and reads.
 p[2*S: 2*S+n]
-    The requested memory, filled with copies of CLEANBYTE.
+    The requested memory, filled with copies of PYMEM_CLEANBYTE.
     Used to catch reference to uninitialized memory.
     &p[2*S] is returned.  Note that this is 8-byte aligned if pymalloc
     handled the request itself.
 p[2*S+n: 2*S+n+S]
-    Copies of FORBIDDENBYTE.  Used to catch over- writes and reads.
+    Copies of PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE.  Used to catch over- writes and reads.
 p[2*S+n+S: 2*S+n+2*S]
     A serial number, incremented by 1 on each call to _PyMem_DebugMalloc
     and _PyMem_DebugRealloc.
@@ -2170,15 +2156,15 @@
     /* at p, write size (SST bytes), id (1 byte), pad (SST-1 bytes) */
     write_size_t(p, nbytes);
     p[SST] = (uint8_t)api->api_id;
-    memset(p + SST + 1, FORBIDDENBYTE, SST-1);
+    memset(p + SST + 1, PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE, SST-1);
 
     if (nbytes > 0 && !use_calloc) {
-        memset(data, CLEANBYTE, nbytes);
+        memset(data, PYMEM_CLEANBYTE, nbytes);
     }
 
     /* at tail, write pad (SST bytes) and serialno (SST bytes) */
     tail = data + nbytes;
-    memset(tail, FORBIDDENBYTE, SST);
+    memset(tail, PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE, SST);
 #ifdef PYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO
     write_size_t(tail + SST, serialno);
 #endif
@@ -2204,7 +2190,7 @@
 
 /* The debug free first checks the 2*SST bytes on each end for sanity (in
    particular, that the FORBIDDENBYTEs with the api ID are still intact).
-   Then fills the original bytes with DEADBYTE.
+   Then fills the original bytes with PYMEM_DEADBYTE.
    Then calls the underlying free.
 */
 static void
@@ -2222,7 +2208,7 @@
     _PyMem_DebugCheckAddress(api->api_id, p);
     nbytes = read_size_t(q);
     nbytes += PYMEM_DEBUG_EXTRA_BYTES;
-    memset(q, DEADBYTE, nbytes);
+    memset(q, PYMEM_DEADBYTE, nbytes);
     api->alloc.free(api->alloc.ctx, q);
 }
 
@@ -2264,14 +2250,14 @@
      */
     if (original_nbytes <= sizeof(save)) {
         memcpy(save, data, original_nbytes);
-        memset(data - 2 * SST, DEADBYTE,
+        memset(data - 2 * SST, PYMEM_DEADBYTE,
                original_nbytes + PYMEM_DEBUG_EXTRA_BYTES);
     }
     else {
         memcpy(save, data, ERASED_SIZE);
-        memset(head, DEADBYTE, ERASED_SIZE + 2 * SST);
+        memset(head, PYMEM_DEADBYTE, ERASED_SIZE + 2 * SST);
         memcpy(&save[ERASED_SIZE], tail - ERASED_SIZE, ERASED_SIZE);
-        memset(tail - ERASED_SIZE, DEADBYTE,
+        memset(tail - ERASED_SIZE, PYMEM_DEADBYTE,
                ERASED_SIZE + PYMEM_DEBUG_EXTRA_BYTES - 2 * SST);
     }
 
@@ -2293,10 +2279,10 @@
 
     write_size_t(head, nbytes);
     head[SST] = (uint8_t)api->api_id;
-    memset(head + SST + 1, FORBIDDENBYTE, SST-1);
+    memset(head + SST + 1, PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE, SST-1);
 
     tail = data + nbytes;
-    memset(tail, FORBIDDENBYTE, SST);
+    memset(tail, PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE, SST);
 #ifdef PYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO
     write_size_t(tail + SST, block_serialno);
 #endif
@@ -2320,7 +2306,8 @@
 
     if (nbytes > original_nbytes) {
         /* growing: mark new extra memory clean */
-        memset(data + original_nbytes, CLEANBYTE, nbytes - original_nbytes);
+        memset(data + original_nbytes, PYMEM_CLEANBYTE,
+               nbytes - original_nbytes);
     }
 
     return data;
@@ -2399,7 +2386,7 @@
      * the tail could lead to a segfault then.
      */
     for (i = SST-1; i >= 1; --i) {
-        if (*(q-i) != FORBIDDENBYTE) {
+        if (*(q-i) != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE) {
             msg = "bad leading pad byte";
             goto error;
         }
@@ -2408,7 +2395,7 @@
     nbytes = read_size_t(q - 2*SST);
     tail = q + nbytes;
     for (i = 0; i < SST; ++i) {
-        if (tail[i] != FORBIDDENBYTE) {
+        if (tail[i] != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE) {
             msg = "bad trailing pad byte";
             goto error;
         }
@@ -2448,7 +2435,7 @@
     fprintf(stderr, "    The %d pad bytes at p-%d are ", SST-1, SST-1);
     ok = 1;
     for (i = 1; i <= SST-1; ++i) {
-        if (*(q-i) != FORBIDDENBYTE) {
+        if (*(q-i) != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE) {
             ok = 0;
             break;
         }
@@ -2457,11 +2444,11 @@
         fputs("FORBIDDENBYTE, as expected.\n", stderr);
     else {
         fprintf(stderr, "not all FORBIDDENBYTE (0x%02x):\n",
-            FORBIDDENBYTE);
+            PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE);
         for (i = SST-1; i >= 1; --i) {
             const uint8_t byte = *(q-i);
             fprintf(stderr, "        at p-%d: 0x%02x", i, byte);
-            if (byte != FORBIDDENBYTE)
+            if (byte != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE)
                 fputs(" *** OUCH", stderr);
             fputc('\n', stderr);
         }
@@ -2476,7 +2463,7 @@
     fprintf(stderr, "    The %d pad bytes at tail=%p are ", SST, (void *)tail);
     ok = 1;
     for (i = 0; i < SST; ++i) {
-        if (tail[i] != FORBIDDENBYTE) {
+        if (tail[i] != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE) {
             ok = 0;
             break;
         }
@@ -2485,12 +2472,12 @@
         fputs("FORBIDDENBYTE, as expected.\n", stderr);
     else {
         fprintf(stderr, "not all FORBIDDENBYTE (0x%02x):\n",
-                FORBIDDENBYTE);
+                PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE);
         for (i = 0; i < SST; ++i) {
             const uint8_t byte = tail[i];
             fprintf(stderr, "        at tail+%d: 0x%02x",
                     i, byte);
-            if (byte != FORBIDDENBYTE)
+            if (byte != PYMEM_FORBIDDENBYTE)
                 fputs(" *** OUCH", stderr);
             fputc('\n', stderr);
         }