Re: [Valgrind-developers] time stamping the error reports

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:39 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Julian Seward wrote:
> > Eyal
> >
> > It looks like a good patch, and a useful thing too.  I would merge
> > it in, except there is one critical problem which needs fixing first.
> >
> > The patch uses a glibc function, time(), to get the time.  We have
>
> And that goes for localtime() too, right? I will track down a private
> implementation then.

Get hold of the glibc sources and copy relevant bits from there.

> But, it should be OK to issue glibc calls at initialisation time. 

No ... it's not ok to issue glibc calls at any time.  You get bad
interactions with the dynamic linker.

J