Re: core dump from within asctime_r()

Jan. 31, 2010

      On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Robert Elz wrote:
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locatime() can return NULL these days, ...
This code follows the C standard, so this bug is a defect in the standard.
How so?  It's not the job of the standard to specify coding practices.
If a function can return a null pointer, programmers need to check
for that.

Is it "a defect in the standard" that malloc() can return NULL?

Or do you mean something else that I'm missing?

--Bill Seymour