diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index f8b2d75abaa..7dff3a7de60 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ _check_size(c_char)
 
 class c_char_p(_SimpleCData):
     _type_ = "z"
+    if _os.name == "nt":
+        def __repr__(self):
+            if not windll.kernel32.IsBadStringPtrA(self, -1):
+                return "%s(%r)" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.value)
+            return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, cast(self, c_void_p).value)
+    else:
+        def __repr__(self):
+            return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, cast(self, c_void_p).value)
 _check_size(c_char_p, "P")
 
 class c_void_p(_SimpleCData):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b5cf34963eb..aa023884d85 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
+  ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location.  As a
+  sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
+
 - tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
 
 - Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.