core dump from within asctime_r()

[Marc Lehmann]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:21:17PM -0600, Bill Seymour <stdbill.h at pobox.com> wrote:
> > This code follows the C standard, so this bug is a defect in the standard.
> 
> How so?  It's not the job of the standard to specify coding practices.
> If a function can return a null pointer, programmers need to check
> for that.

       Description

       [#2] The ctime function converts the calendar  time  pointed
       to  by  timer  to local time in the form of a string.  It is
       equivalent to

               asctime(localtime(timer))

> Is it "a defect in the standard" that malloc() can return NULL?
> 
> Or do you mean something else that I'm missing?

Yes, you should probably read the standard first before commenting about
it :)

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