[tz] localtime.c patch

[Arthur David Olson]

Back in the 1980s (when this code had its origins), NULL pointers weren't
guaranteed to be all zeroes; having a static, otherwise unused structure
(which was guaranteed to be initialized correctly) for initialization
purposes was cheap portability insurance. (The insurance was taken out
consistently, both for uniformity and to avoid problems if a pointer was
added to a structure later.) Given updates to the C standard and waning
interest in supporting old systems, this insurance may well no longer be
needed.

Meanwhile, changing...
    memset(sp->ttis, 0, sizeof(sp->ttis));
...to...
    memset(sp->ttis, 0, sizeof sp->ttis);
...saves a character and is a reminder (to me, at least) that sizeof isn't
a function.

    @dashdashado



On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com> wrote:

> Minor nits.
>
> christos
>
> --- localtime.c.orig    2014-10-07 16:20:32.000000000 -0400
> +++ localtime.c 2014-10-07 16:22:47.000000000 -0400
> @@ -306,3 +306,3 @@
>         register int                    stored;
> -       register int                    nread;
> +       register ssize_t                nread;
>         typedef union {
> @@ -934,3 +934,2 @@
>         register bool                   load_ok;
> -       static struct ttinfo            zttinfo;
>
> @@ -1006,3 +1005,3 @@
>                         */
> -                       sp->ttis[0] = sp->ttis[1] = zttinfo;
> +                       memset(sp->ttis, 0, sizeof(sp->ttis));
>                         sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -dstoffset;
> @@ -1131,3 +1130,3 @@
>                         */
> -                       sp->ttis[0] = sp->ttis[1] = zttinfo;
> +                       memset(sp->ttis, 0, sizeof(sp->ttis));
>                         sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -stdoffset;
> @@ -1145,3 +1144,3 @@
>                 sp->timecnt = 0;
> -               sp->ttis[0] = zttinfo;
> +               memset(sp->ttis, 0, sizeof(sp->ttis));
>                 sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -stdoffset;
> @@ -2108,3 +2107,2 @@
>
> -       sp = lclptr;
>         i = sp->leapcnt;
>
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