Re: Bash-5.2 Release available

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/28/22 9:22 PM, Corey Hickey wrote:
> On 2022-09-26 12:33, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > There are a few incompatible changes between bash-5.1 and bash-5.2. Here-
> > documents and here-strings use temporary files if the shell compatibility
> > level is 50 or lower. The `unset' builtin in bash-5.2 treats array 
> > subscripts
> > `@' and `*' differently than previous versions, and differently depending on
> > whether the array is indexed or associative. Bash-5.2 attempts to prevent
> > double-expansion of array subscripts under certain circumstances, especially
> > arithmetic evaluation, by acting as if the `assoc_expand_once' shell option
> > were set. Set the compatibility level appropriately to revert to previous
> > behavior; details are in the file COMPAT.
>
> I think I encountered the array subscript change, and I'm having some trouble.

Thanks for the report. I left the arithmetic evaluation of associative 
arrays using `@' and `*' as keys alone for backwards compatibility, but
it needs to move up with the rest of the compatibility level code. Here's
a patch that does that.

Chet

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arith-exprs-assoc-atstar.patch
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