On 2/18/16 11:39 AM, Emilio PastorMira wrote:

> The bug I found is related to the possibility of obtaining all keys of a
> declarative array at once (${!ARRAY[@]} syntax). It seems that every time
> such a call is done there is memory allocation, which is NOT deallocated
> when the corresponding scope ends. This produces a memory leak.

Thanks for the report.  The fix was easy and will be in the next version
of bash.

I've attached a patch if you'd like to play around with it.  Your line
numbers will certainly vary.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
*** ../bash-4.3-patched/subst.c	2015-08-13 15:11:52.000000000 -0400
--- subst.c	2016-02-18 13:57:34.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 7353,7356 ****
--- 8041,8045 ----
  	    }	    
  
+ 	  free (name);
  	  free (temp1);
  	  *indexp = sindex;

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