FW: FW: zic and zoneinfo.zip

[Ravindra]

> I don't observe the problem with version 2010m on 64-bit
> RHEL with my GCC 4.5.1 installation.  After running the
> following commands:
> 
>   wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2010m.tar.gz
>   wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2010m.tar.gz
>   tar xf tzcode2010m.tar.gz 
>   tar xf tzdata2010m.tar.gz 
>   make TOPDIR=`pwd`/topdir ALL install
>   TZ=`pwd`/topdir/etc/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
> valgrind ./date
> 
> the output of the valgrind session is:
> 
> ==723== Memcheck, a memory error detector
> ==723== Copyright (C) 2002-2009, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
> ==723== Using Valgrind-3.5.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
> ==723== Command: ./date
> ==723== Mon Sep 27 09:57:23 PDT 2010
> ==723== 
> ==723== HEAP SUMMARY:
> ==723==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==723==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 1,024 bytes allocated
> ==723== 
> ==723== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
> ==723== 
> ==723== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
> ==723== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 4 from 4)

It does not happen for all the timezones. It is happening only for a
subset. One timezone for which I'm able to reproduce it consistently is "EST5EDT". Basically, if I do tzload for "EST5EDT" timezone on
64-bit systems using tzcode2010l and tzdata2010l, then valgrind reports
this error.

Thanks,
Ravindra