(gdb) r Starting program: /bin/bash -c a=\$\* Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. quote_string (string=string@entry=0x0) at subst.c:3940 3940 if (*string == 0)
diff --git a/subst.c b/subst.c index 37d96f9..16ae3f0 100644 --- a/subst.c +++ b/subst.c @@ -8575,7 +8575,7 @@ param_expand (string, sindex, quoted, expanded_something, /* If we're not quoted but we still don't want word splitting, make we quote the IFS characters to protect them from splitting (e.g., when $@ is in the string as well). */ - else if (quoted == 0 && ifs_is_set && (pflags & PF_ASSIGNRHS)) + else if (temp != 0 && quoted == 0 && ifs_is_set && (pflags & PF_ASSIGNRHS)) { temp1 = quote_string (temp); free (temp); Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."