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Re: Wrong 'declare -A' causes segfault
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Wrong 'declare -A' causes segfault |
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:11 -0500 |
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Bernd Eggink wrote:
> GNU bash, version 4.0.35(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
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> The following syntactically wrong declaration causes a segmentation fault:
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> declare -A x=y
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> It should issue an error message instead.
It's not actually a syntax error. It should assign an element with key
"0", like an indexed array assigns an element with index 0. This will
be fixed in bash-4.1.
Chet
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