Re: Segfault assigning to nameref with bad array subscript

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/27/16 2:45 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Any of the following will crash bash:
> 
> declare -n ref=a[*]; ref=
> declare -n ref=a[@]; ref=
> declare -n ref=a[-1]; a=(); ref=
> 
> declare -A A; declare -n ref='A[$unset]'; ref=
> 
> They all produce "bad array subscript" errors so could be caught.

Thanks for the report.  This was an easy fix, and the fix will be in
bash-4.4.

Chet

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