Re: Bash 5.3 ARRAY_EXPORT build fix

Marc Aurèle La France <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Jan 2026 15:06:01 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

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On Mon, 2026-Jan-05, Marc Aurèle La France wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-Jan-05, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 1/3/26 10:09 AM, Marc Aurèle La France wrote:
>>> Just an oversight when extract_array_assignment_list()'s second argument
>>> was changed from 'int *' to 'size_t *'.

>> Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to change the variables to
>> size_t.

> Here you go.

In ...

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/variables.c?h=devel&id=e7c3acf10876963d15f4b6b8030717d308c12bd4

.. which is part of commit e7c3acf10876963d15f4b6b8030717d308c12bd4, the
slen variable that is introduced, is unused.

Marc.