localtime_r segfaults, localtime doesn't... same values passed to each function...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 05:06:12PM -0400, Brian Bisaillon wrote:
>This works...
> 
>struct tm *sci_localtime (time_t timep) {
>    struct tm *result;
>    if ((result = localtime(&timep)) == NULL) {
>    int errsv = errno;
>        fprintf (stderr, "\nError Code %i: %s at line
>%i of %s function in %s \
>            \n", strerror (errsv), 2,
>"sci_localtime_r", "sci_time.c");
>        exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
>    } else {
>        return (result);
>    }
>}
> 
>This doesn't...
> 
>struct tm *sci_localtime_r (time_t timep) {
>    struct tm *result;
>    if ((localtime_r(&timep, result)) == NULL) {
                              ^^^^^^

You're passing an uninitialized pointer as the second argument to
localtime_r.  This is supposed to be the address of a user-defined
struct.

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