wasmps crashes when try to assemble cstrtlmp.asm

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cstrtlmp.asm has only 7 lines of code, but assembling does not work
In addition, binl/wasmps and binl64/wasmps produce a different backtrace:

The 32 bit wasmps has a Segmentation fault in ExpandNestedMacros_

gdb --args  <full_path_here>/binl/wasmps  cstrtlmp.asm 
...
Starting program:  <full_path_here>/binl/wasmps  cstrtlmp.asm
Reading symbols from <full_path_here>/binl/wasmps...
(No debugging symbols found in <full_path_here>/binl/wasmps)
(gdb) run
Starting program: <full_path_here>/binl/wasmps cstrtlmp.asm
Downloading separate debug info for system-supplied DSO at 0xf7ffc000
Open Watcom MIPS Assembler Version 2.0 beta Mar 26 2024 08:22:51 (32-bit)                                                                         
Copyright (c) 2002-2024 The Open Watcom Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
Portions Copyright (c) 1984-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Source code is available under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.
See https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2#readme for details.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0805494e in ExpandNestedMacros_ ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0805494e in ExpandNestedMacros_ ()
#1  0x00002000 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000004 in ?? ()
#3  0x000002cc in ?? ()
#4  0x08055098 in DoMacroExpansion_ ()
#5  0x0805335b in PP_Char_ ()
#6  0x000001cc in ?? ()
#7  0x0804e2b5 in ppRead_ ()
#8  0x0804e61c in fill_ ()
#9  0x08050363 in yylex_ ()
#10 0x0804da04 in yyparse_ ()
#11 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

When i try binl/wd and binl/wasmps from my current build tree,
wd stops in ppmacro.c (function: ExpandNestedMacros) at:

 rescanning = NestedMacros->rescanning;

See screenshoot: https://imgur.com/vO0BW5o.png

The 64 bit wasmps crashes with SIGABRT after a double free or corruption.

gdb --args  <full_path_here>/binl64/wasmps  cstrtlmp.asm 
...
Reading symbols from <full_path_here>/binl64/wasmps...
Reading symbols from <full_path_here>/binl64/wasmps.sym...
(gdb) run
Starting program: <full_path_here>/binl64/wasmps -bt=linux cstrtlmp.asm
Downloading separate debug info for system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7ffd000
Open Watcom MIPS Assembler Version 2.0 beta Mar 26 2024 08:22:52 (64-bit)                                                                         
Copyright (c) 2002-2024 The Open Watcom Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
Portions Copyright (c) 1984-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Source code is available under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.
See https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2#readme for details.
double free or corruption (out)

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x000000000042206b in raise ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000042206b in raise ()
#1  0x000000000040131f in abort ()
#2  0x000000000042d8f6 in __libc_message ()
#3  0x0000000000433e8c in malloc_printerr ()
#4  0x0000000000435ad8 in _int_free ()
#5  0x000000000040ee0a in PP_Free (p=<optimised out>) at ../../../../bld/cpp/c/ppmem.c:52
#6  0x000000000040c60d in PP_Char () at ../../../../bld/cpp/c/preproc.c:1345
#7  0x00000000004072f3 in ppRead (numchar=8192, 
    buffer=0x524c40 "#line 1 \"cstrtlmp.asm\"", '\n' <wiederholt 36 Mal>, ".globl          _cstart_\n\n.text", '\n' <wiederholt 25 Mal>, "_cstart_:\n\n\n        lw      $a0,($sp)       \n        li      $v0,4", ' ' <wiederholt 11 Mal>, "\n        "...) at scan_in.re:50
#8  fill () at scan_in.re:218
#9  0x00000000004075fe in yylex () at scan_in.re:263
#10 0x0000000000406a61 in yyparse () at asytab.c:456
#11 0x00000000004095aa in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffd208) at ../../../../bld/as/c/main.c:99
(gdb)

with wine + winedbg using binnt/wasmps, a page fault on a memory read is visible:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000c in 32-bit code (0x0000000040d8ae).
Register dump:
 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
 EIP:0040d8ae ESP:0052f95c EBP:003ff888 EFLAGS:00010246(  R- --  I  Z- -P- )
 EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:00000004 EDX:003ff888
 ESI:00000000 EDI:003f346e
Stack dump:
0x0000000052f95c:  003ff888 00000000 0040df00 00000000
0x0000000052f96c:  003f346e 00002000 00000004 000002cc
0x0000000052f97c:  0040dff8 003ff7d8 0040c2bb 00000041
0x0000000052f98c:  003fb6f8 000001cd 0000000a 000001cc
0x0000000052f99c:  004071b5 00000000 003fb6f8 00000000
0x0000000052f9ac:  00000000 0040751c 00000000 00000000
Backtrace:
=>0 0x0000000040d8ae in wasmps (+0xd8ae) (0x000000003ff888)
  1 0x0000002d5a0000 (0x000000003ff888)
  2 0x0000002d5a0000 (0x000000003ff888) (+ another 196 times..)

the crashed code:
0x0000000040d8ae wasmps+0xd8ae: movb    0xc(%eax),%al

with wine + winedbg using binnt64/wasmps, wasmps hangs in an endless lop
and consumes ~100% cpu time of a single core.