Dear all,

there was some left-over code - likely from development - that could
lead to a compiler segfault when given invalid input.  Steve found
the offending line.  Removing it solves the issue.

The fix was acknowledged by Tobias in the PR.

Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.

Pushed as: r13-1767-g26bbe78f77f73bb66af1ac13d0deec888a3c6510

Will backport to 12-branch, as the offending code was introduced there.

Thanks,
Harald