Mod'ing struct tm causes segmentation fault on RHEL 5.4
Tim P. Starrin
Timothy.P.Starrin at nasa.gov
Thu Jul 1 23:11:18 UTC 2010
The following program generates a segmentation fault on RHEL 5.4. Other
systems (eg: Solaris, AIX, RHEL 4) do not exhibit this problem.
Comments?
Tim
% cc -DBUG -o fault fault.c
=> fault.c <=
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
main ()
{
struct tm *date;
int date_as_int;
date_as_int = time ((time_t *) NULL);
date = localtime ((time_t *) &date_as_int);
#ifdef BUG
date->tm_year %= 100;
#else
while (date->tm_year >= 100)
date->tm_year -= 100;
#endif
printf ("%02d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",
date->tm_year, date->tm_mon+1, date->tm_mday,
date->tm_hour, date->tm_min, date->tm_sec);
}
Tim
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