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Bug#484048: marked as done (gettimeofday() crashes if given a timezone on amd64)

Your message dated Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:48:26 +0200
with message-id <20080603064826.GR29466@stro.at>
and subject line Re: gettimeofday() crashes if given a timezone on amd64
has caused the Debian Bug report #484048,
regarding gettimeofday() crashes if given a timezone on amd64
to be marked as done.

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Package: libc6
Version: 2.7-10

I just upgraded from etch to lenny on an amd64 machine.  gdm crashed
at startup.  I traced it down to gdm calling gettimeofday() with a
timezone.  The following program also crashes:

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <time.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	struct timeval tv;
	struct timezone tz;

	gettimeofday(&tv, &tz);
	return 0;
}

If you remove the timezone, it works fine.  The timezone was
pointless in gdm, so I removed it and it works fine now.

It seems to work fine on an x86 box, which has a different problem :(.

I am using Debian lenny/sid, kernel 2.6.25.

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tried to reproduce but example code, just runs fine.

> I recompiled it to see what was happening and the problem went away.
> The only difference was that I compiled by hand (with "make") instead of
> using the debian tool to compile it, and it was compiled under etch.  So
> it's not a problem any more, but if you see this again you know what it
> is.


seems you used an supported gcc version, gcc 4.3 was known to miscompile
older kernel versions.

thus closing


-- 
maks

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