result[6] is a fixed array of size 6, but in the process
of copying data into it, we clobber the last allocated byte.
Simplify some of the code by not calling redundant functions.
This is a MUCH SANER approach to what I was trying to do (now that I screwed up enough internals to understand some of them!
At this point there are zero exit state reversions, and zero markup reversions! There are still 21 errout reversions; I'll
annotate and adjust as necessary.
