Re: Bug with declarative arrays

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/18/16 11:39 AM, Emilio PastorMira wrote:

> The bug I found is related to the possibility of obtaining all keys of a
> declarative array at once (${!ARRAY[@]} syntax). It seems that every time
> such a call is done there is memory allocation, which is NOT deallocated
> when the corresponding scope ends. This produces a memory leak.

Thanks for the report.  The fix was easy and will be in the next version
of bash.

I've attached a patch if you'd like to play around with it.  Your line
numbers will certainly vary.

Chet

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array-keys-memleak.patch
Description: Source code patch