In any case, the abort message from the OpenVMS C compiler was as follows:
CC/name=(as_i,shor)/repo=lcl_root:[bash.cxx_repository]/debu/list/mach/show=(EXPA,INC)/prefix=(all,exce=(strtoimax,strtoumax))/neste
d=none/define=(_USE_STD_STAT=1,_POSIX_EXIT=1,HAVE_CONFIG_H=1)/OBJ=VARIABLES.OBJ
LCL_ROOT:VARIABLES.C
ind = array_expand_index (name, subp, sublen);
..................................................^
%CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
value "name" is "const char", which is not compatible with
"struct variable".
at line number 2576 in file LCL_ROOT:[bash]VARIABLES.C;1
%MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X10B91260 occurred when updating target
VARIABLES.OBJ
Such warnings about type disagreements are always suspicious when
non-void (or non-void *) types are involved and, as it turns out, this
source code statement is indeed completely illogical as the called
function (array_expand_index in this particular case) has no logical
provision within its implementation for dealing with a const char * as
its first argument. From the context of the preceding source code, it
was apparent that the name of the first argument to this function should
be changed from "name" to "entry" in order for the statement to be both
logically correct and type compatible with the function being called. Of
course, it is completely possible for the compiler to generate the
machine instructions to carry out the call as originally written. But,
the execution of those generated instructions would have at the very
least produce undefined behavior and at worst a core dump.
The diff for the correction against the variables.c module for
bash-4.3.33 follows:
ROBERTSON@srvr1:/src_root/bash > diff -uN variables.c.orig variables.c
--- variables.c.orig Sat Mar 7 10:19:39 2015
+++ variables.c Sat Mar 7 09:34:04 2015
@@ -2573,7 +2573,7 @@
entry = make_new_array_variable (newname); /* indexed array
by default */
if (entry == 0)
return entry;
- ind = array_expand_index (name, subp, sublen);
+ ind = array_expand_index (entry, subp, sublen);
bind_array_element (entry, ind, value, aflags);
}
#endif