Re: Bug #630: date/time storage problem: timestamp parsed

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-04-10T05:01:42Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
> Ehh... let me hack/check.  Looks like 11.  ??  In
> lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c, WRONG is defined as -1, not 11.

> 1490                    t = mktime(tmp);
> (gdb) 
> 1491                    fprintf(stderr, "%p\n", t);  /* GCC optimizes this
>                                                         away if I don't do
> 							something */
> (gdb) 
> 0x3c5e5ba0
> (gdb) print t
> $1 = 11

> Doesn't make much sense to me where that'd come from...  ? -sc

I'd be inclined to believe the 0x3c5e5ba0 (= Mon Feb 04 2002, 05:00:00
EST according to my local time code) and not the 11.  I think gdb is
dropping the ball here; most likely, failing to warn you that the
register that once held t wasn't preserved over the fprintf function
call.

			regards, tom lane