Environment with NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=x installation breaks with illegal value for flag

[gorbinphilip]

Version

v12.22.7

Platform

Linux 0031d2238124 4.14.248-189.473.amzn2.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 27 05:52:26 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192
nvm install v12

provided latest v12 release is v12.22.7, otherwise do

export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192
nvm install v12.22.7

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Not specific. Consistent with this release version. Other version works fine.
Following passes without any failures

export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192
nvm install v12.22.6

What is the expected behavior?

Expect installation to pass

What do you see instead?

Error: illegal value for flag --max-old-space-size=8192	 of type size_t
Try --help for options
node: bad option: --max-old-space-size=8192

Additional information

Little unclear if node or nvm specific, but broken with release of v12.22.7