Bernd Eggink wrote:
> GNU bash, version 4.0.35(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> The following syntactically wrong declaration causes a segmentation fault:
> 
>     declare -A x=y
> 
> It should issue an error message instead.

It's not actually a syntax error.  It should assign an element with key
"0", like an indexed array assigns an element with index 0.  This will
be fixed in bash-4.1.

Chet
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