On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:50:02PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said:
> >
> > The code yielding to this was of the kind of :
> >
> > struct tm tm;
> > time_t t;
> > t = time(NULL);
> > localtime (&t, &tm);
> >
> > This is in a fr_FR.utf8 locale, on a powerpc box. The same code on an x86
> > box
> > just segfaults without error message.
>
> That doesn't even compile here:
yeah, it's localtime_r i used.
> #include <time.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main (void) {
> struct tm tm;
> time_t t;
> t = time(NULL);
> localtime (&t, &tm);
> exit(0);
> }
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -Wall t.c
> t.c: In function ‘main’:
> t.c:8: error: too many arguments to function ‘localtime’
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> This code works fine, though:
>
> #include <time.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main (void) {
> struct tm *tm;
> time_t t;
> t = time(NULL);
> tm = localtime (&t);
> exit(0);
> }
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -Wall t.c
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 ./a.out
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
And indeed, like i said, it worked fine 100s of times, and then died. Try :
int main (void) {
struct tm tm;
time_t t;
while (1) {
t = time(NULL);
localtime_r (&t, &tm);
}
exit(0);
}
>
