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authorDavid A Ramos <daramos@gustav.stanford.edu>2010-07-27 13:10:15 +0200
committerBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2010-07-27 13:10:15 +0200
commit85b7ea33088fa16d319adbd228fc152f5b9da730 (patch)
tree61d2c5e0e5839bae8731f067d429ac951687c29e /test/time/tst-ctime.c
parent94889eacb194f5a61a99e296acbd1685788242d9 (diff)
Fix ctime() standard compliance bug
fixes issue2209: ctime() was updated in 0.9.31 to call localtime_r() instead of localtime() to avoid using a static buffer. Unfortunately, this change replaces the static buffer (which is zeroed out on initialization) with an uninitialized local buffer. In the common case, this has no effect. However, with a sufficiently large time_t value, the value returned differs from that returned by asctime(localtime(t)), and thus violates the ANSI/ISO standard. An example input is (on a 64-bit machine): time_t t = 0x7ffffffffff6c600; Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/* testcase for ctime(3) with large time
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 David A Ramos <daramos@gustav.stanford.edu>
+ * Licensed under the LGPL v2.1, see the file COPYING.LIB in this tarball.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
+
+#define MAX_POSITIVE(type) (~0 & ~((type) 1 << (sizeof(type)*8 - 1)))
+
+int do_test(int argc, char **argv) {
+ char *correct = 0, *s;
+ int status;
+
+ /* need a very high positive number (e.g., max - 1024) */
+ time_t test = MAX_POSITIVE(time_t) - 1024;
+
+ s = asctime(localtime(&test));
+
+ if (s) {
+ // copy static buffer to heap
+ correct = malloc(strlen(s)+1);
+ strcpy(correct, s);
+ }
+
+ s = ctime(&test);
+
+ printf("ANSI:\t%suClibc:\t%s", correct, s);
+
+ if (s != correct && strcmp(correct, s))
+ status = EXIT_FAILURE;
+ else
+ status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
+
+ if (correct)
+ free(correct);
+
+ return status;
+}
+
+#include <test-skeleton.c>