Re: bash memory leak when querying associative array for nonexisting element

[Koichi Murase]

 2022年11月20日(日) 23:07 Ralf Oehler <Ralf@oehler-privat.de>:
> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 2
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         [Detailed description of the problem, suggestion, or
>         complaint.]
>         I want to read an associative array. Like so: y="${aa[$i]}"
>         If aa contains the element queried, then everything works as
>         expected
>         If aa does not contain such an element, the result is the
>         empty string, which is expected, but the query permanently
>         increases the memory consumption of the executing bash,
>         which is not expected. The program below demonstrates this
>         behaviour. When run, the bash process increases its memory
>         indefinitely.

I also noticed a memory leak early this month in testing my new
extglob implementation and was planning to submit a patch later. I now
checked this report and confirmed that this is actually caused by the
same part of the code. Here, I attach my patch
[r0037.parameter_brace_expand_word.memleak.patch], though I haven't
yet carefully tested it because I originally planned to submit it
sometime later.

--
Koichi

r0037.parameter_brace_expand_word.memleak.patch.txt
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