[tz] localtime.c patch

[Christos Zoulas]

On Oct 7, 10:11pm, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] localtime.c patch

| Sorry, I don't see the bug there; can you explain?  I assume you're talking 
| about either the code labeled "only standard time" or the code labeled "so, 
| we're off a little", and in both cases there is only one time type, so the rest 
| of the code should never access sp->ttis[1] and there should be no need to 
| initialize it.

Well, this was the case before we returned a pointer of that data to the
user. I prefer not to return random bits from the heap to the user.

| In trying out the code under 'valgrind' I found that the command "zdump ''" 
| tickled some other uninitialized-storage usages: the "so, we're off a little" 
| code doesn't initialize charcnt, goback, goahead, or defaulttype.

Thanks, that is a good idea.

| I hope the attached proposed patch fixes all these problems; please let us know 

I'll take a look, thanks!

christos