Prior to this change, it requires to be passed a valid pointer just to
be able to pass it to a zero-byte memcmp, per 0a52d378.  Given the
strange resulting code in callsites, it seems better to test for the
case specifically and remove the requirement.

Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
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