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Re: Memory leak in 5.1 when redeclaring arrays


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Memory leak in 5.1 when redeclaring arrays
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:50:19 -0500
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On 1/12/21 5:51 AM, Alexander Mescheryakov wrote:

Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 4
Release Status: release

Description:
        Redeclaring array variable leads to leaked memory in bash 5.1

     It is required to define var as `declare -a FOO=(a b c)`
     defining it simply as `FOO=(a b c)` does not introduce memory leak.

It's strange. The process RSS size definitely grows, but valgrind and other
tools don't report any leaks. I'll have to look at it.

Chet

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