tst-timezone dumps core

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Tue Jul 28 20:26:00 GMT 1998


Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:

> For awhile now tst-timezone dumps core in __tzfile_read, in this loop:
> 
> 277       for (i = 0; i < num_types; ++i)
> 278         __tzname[types[i].isdst] = __tzstring (&zone_names[types[i].idx]);
> 
> num_types is absurdly large, so it runs off the end of the array.
> Probably the bug is in decode().

Can you evaluate this further?  I cannot see this problem here.

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