Bug 1173668

This problem is specific to all releases, and fedora, up
to rawhide.

  There is an issue with initialization of nested associative
arrays. The test case is:

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#!/bin/ksh

typeset -A foo
typeset -A foo[bar]
foo[bar][x]=2
(( foo[bar][x]++ ))
set | grep foo
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  On recent fedora and rhel, it will print:
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_='foo[bar]'
foo=([bar]=([0]='' [x]=3) )
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  I have been told on other systems, earlier ksh would print:
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foo=([bar]=([0]='' [x]=2) [x]=1)
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  But the current Fedora and Rhel result is still not
"good". For example, with a smaller test case, just
creating foo[bar]:

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#!/bin/ksh
typeset -A foo
typeset -A foo[bar]
set | grep foo
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results in:
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_='foo[bar]'
foo=([bar]=([0]='') )
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The above, and a few more details were reported upstream at
http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2014q4/004685.html

Here is a cut&paste of an off-list mail that should
make it easier to see the proposed patch is good:

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2014-12-12 13:23 GMT-02:00 David Korn <dgkorn>:
> Thanks for the report and the patch.  However, on the recent beta version
> 93v- 2014-09-29. I am not able to reproduce the bug (at least on ubuntu
> Linux).

  I will make an official RedHat bug report, as it looks like my patch is
good :) For earlier releases it is very unlikely to make a backport of
latest ksh, and usually should only pull patches if a problem is found.

> You can download this release from www.research.att.com/sw/download/beta/
> If you have the problem with this, let me know.

  Looks like I rediscovered the patch :) I downloaded the latest
sources and it has:

        if(fp || (value && value!=Empty))

my patch only had extra spaces:

-        if(fp || value)
+        if(fp || (value && value != Empty))

[...quoted email here...]

Thanks!
Paulo
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