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Re: Memory leak with associative arrays


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Memory leak with associative arrays
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:29:07 -0400
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On 10/4/11 2:48 PM, David Parks wrote:
> Version: GNU bash, version 4.2.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) on Ubuntu
> 10.04
> 
> If I set an associative array, as in: 
> 
> MYARRAY["something"]="Goobledygook"
> 
> Then I set that same variable name again later (and so on in a loop). The
> earlier variables are never released from memory, before I re-set a given
> item I MUST call unset on the item first, possibly storing the value to a
> temp variable if it's needed (such as is the case with a counter, for
> example).

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next bash release.  I've
attached a patch you can use to test.

Chet

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