Great stuff, amazingly fast - I'm really surprised! Thanks for that. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: bug-bash-bounces+davidparks21=yahoo....@gnu.org [mailto:bug-bash-bounces+davidparks21=yahoo....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Chet Ramey Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 5:29 PM To: David Parks Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; chet.ra...@case.edu Subject: Re: Memory leak with associative arrays 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
