Would the core team really be interested in that? The bytecode interpreter relies on implicit invariants from the codegen, re-checking these invariants on the bytecode means slowing down the interpreter for very little value.
Nope they wouldn't, making the patch is just for completeness sake I guess. Also the afl tool to narrow down segfaults seems to always result in the same fault, so maybe if I patch it it will narrow down some more interesting ones.