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Subject: Re: Core dump calling strptime()
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From: "Erik Cumps" <erik DOT cumps AT icos DOT be>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:30:11 +0100
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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 AT sources DOT redhat DOT com and cygwin AT cygwin DOT co,
but obviously that mail never arrived here...                      ^^^

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