BUG/MINOR: pattern: Do not pass len = 0 to calloc()

The behavior of calloc() when being passed `0` as `nelem` is implementation
defined. It may return a NULL pointer.

Avoid this issue by checking before allocating. While doing so adjust the local
integer variables that are used to refer to memory offsets to `size_t`.

This issue was introced in commit f91ac19299fe216a793ba6550dca06b688b31549. This
patch should be backported together with that commit.
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