perl 5.36 seems to be sensitive when auto-vivifying new
elements of array refs.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: ..
panic: attempt to copy freed scalar ..
so this should be done with dereferenced array (lists)
only instead.
Change-Id: Ifb728021df21deb50e1b1222d077a3623dc3c580
(cherry picked from commit 495b7943e6)