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RE: Memory leak with associative arrays
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David Parks |
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RE: Memory leak with associative arrays |
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Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:40:52 -0700 |
Great stuff, amazingly fast - I'm really surprised!
Thanks for that.
Dave
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Ramey
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 5:29 PM
To: David Parks
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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:
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> MYARRAY["something"]="Goobledygook"
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> 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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