Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:18:07 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: C time functions - problem Message-ID: <20000808201807.H250@parish>
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Can anyone tell me why the call to localtime() in the code below
should segfault in tzset()?
Running it in the debugger shows that ``t'' is set to a sensible
value.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x280be4c8 in tzset () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
int main() {
struct tm *timeptr;
char buf[BUFSIZ];
size_t size;
time_t t;
tzset;
t = time((time_t *)0);
timeptr = localtime((time_t *)t);
.....
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