Bug#409517: dvipdfm segfault related to /etc/localtime

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

severity 409517 important
thanks

(if this bug affects all 64bit arches, it really deserves severity
important) 

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

> * Mark A. Wicks <mwicks@kettering.edu> [2007-02-12 18:37]:
>
>> >Although now I'm confused.  How can this string be 36 characters
>> when >the length of the date_string array is 25?
>> 
>> That's why it was crashing.  The printf was writing 36 characters
>> which overran the 25 byte buffer.
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't explain why it didn't segfault when I changed
> it to 26 bytes.

Could it be that the behavior of abs when fed with a long int is just
"undefined", so that it is "allowed" to segfault, but also not to?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)