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Re: Core dump calling strptime()
- From: "Erik Cumps" <erik dot cumps at icos dot be>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:30:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: Core dump calling strptime()
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Corinna said:
> Newlib's strptime function doesn't implement the 'c' and the 'Z'(*)
> format specifiers. If it encounters one of the non-implemented format
> specifiers it calls the abort() function which then results in the core
> dump.
> (*) Z? I don't see this format specifier defined on Linux, nor in the
> SUSv3 man pages. What's its job?
>From 'man strptime' on a Mandrake 9.2 system:
STRPTIME(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRPTIME(3)
...
GNU EXTENSIONS
For reasons of symmetry, glibc tries to support for strptime the
same
format characters as for strftime. (In most cases the
corresponding
fields are parsed, but no field in tm is changed.) This leads to
...
%Z The timezone name.
HTH,
Erik
PS: originally sent to newlib@sources.redhat.com and cygwin@cygwin.co,
but obviously that mail never arrived here... ^^^
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