[Bug-gforth] [bug #46988] Fix use of uninitalized memory

[Bernd Paysan]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #46988 (project gforth):

Looks like the culprit is the relocate loop while symbol[i]!=0.  That last
zero doesn't get copied.  If I copy that last 0, valgrind reports nothing for
gforth-ditc.

So I suggest to keep the malloc and correctly set the terminating 0 for the
allocated arrays.  That way we can check for unintended use of the
uninitialized part of the array.

Add the following before line 418 in engine/engine.c:

xts[i] = symbols[i] = 0;

and try if the bug persists (with the mallocs).

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