Without this commit, the res[i][1] test vectors are unused. They were introduced to test the correctness of scalar_sqr(x) and scalar_mul(x, x). These tests were deleted as part of removing scalar_sqr in commit 5437e7bdfbffddf69fdf7b4af7e997c78f5dafbf.
Discovered in https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/discussions/1463 by Coding-Enthusiast (thanks!).