[tz] [PROPOSED] zic option for including data from a certain year onward

[Christopher Wong]

My gcc version is:
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I just used a script to compile the database without any flags:

#! /bin/sh
ZONEINFO=/home/christwo/dists/tz/test_zic_github

gcc zic.c -o zic

for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica  \
          asia australasia backward systemv factory; do
    ./zic -L /dev/null   -d $ZONEINFO  -r @220924800/@441763200   -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
done
./zdump -v $ZONEINFO/Africa/Abidjan

If I do:
make clean 
make ... install
as you specified, then I don't see the segmentation faults either. I guess, I just didn't do it the right way.

BR,
Christopher Wong

________________________________________
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 23:29
To: Christopher Wong
Cc: Scott Nelson; Time Zone Mailing List
Subject: Re: [tz] [PROPOSED] zic option for including data from a certain year onward

On 3/11/19 4:18 AM, Christopher Wong wrote:
> Is it correct that the switch between LMT to GMT is set to the specified start of the time range?

Yes. If you tell zic's new -r option to discard info for timestamps
before time T, then the first transition in the output TZif file will be
at time T. This is so that a TZif reader can determine the range of
timestamps that the TZif file covers. See Internet RFC 8536 section 5.1.

> I also tried with the time range "-r @220924800/@441763200" then I encountered ome segmentation fault error prints when I ran that. I haven't investigated any further on that.

I couldn't reproduce the problem. Can you give a recipe for reproducing
it on your end, along with your system configuration?

Here's how I tried to reproduce it, using gcc 8.3.1 20190223 (Red Hat
8.3.1-2) on Fedora 29 x86-64:

make clean
make TOPDIR=/tmp/tz CFLAGS='-fsanitize=address -g3 -O2' ZFLAGS='-r
@220924800/@441763200' install
./zdump -i Africa/Abidjan America/Los_Angeles