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Re: segfault when indirectly expanding negative numbers


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: segfault when indirectly expanding negative numbers
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:24:58 -0400
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On 8/12/15 3:52 PM, isabella parakiss wrote:
> Bash segfaults when trying to do this: x=-3; echo ${!x}
> Here's the backtrace from gdb: https://gist.github.com/306f16a358527b267a1e
> It looks like the problem is the savestring macro when ind is negative.

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next version of bash.

Chet
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