Re: Wrong 'declare -A' causes segfault

[Bernd Eggink]

Am 26.11.2009 01:47, schrieb Chet Ramey:
> Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > GNU bash, version 4.0.35(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> >
> > The following syntactically wrong declaration causes a segmentation fault:
> >
> >      declare -A x=y
> >
> > It should issue an error message instead.
>
> It's not actually a syntax error.

Hm, but the man page says, "Indexed  array  assignments  do not require 
the bracket and subscript." This sounds like the syntax above is valid 
for indexed arrays, but not for associative arrays. Maybe the 
documentation should be corrected then.

Bernd

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