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diff --git a/testsuite/awk.tests b/testsuite/awk.tests
index 0a84dc13e..afbde01c0 100755
--- a/testsuite/awk.tests
+++ b/testsuite/awk.tests
@@ -606,6 +606,13 @@ testing 'awk gensub backslashes \\0' \
 \\0|\\0
 ' '' ''
 
+# References to empty (not provided in the input) fields in first versus subsequent lines
+testing 'awk references to empty fields' \
+        'awk '$sq'$2 != 0'$sq \
+        'a
+b
+' '' 'a\nb\n'
+
 # The "b" in "abc" should not match <b* pattern.
 # Currently we use REG_STARTEND ("This flag is a BSD extension, not present in POSIX")
 # to implement the code to handle this correctly, but if your libc has no REG_STARTEND,