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From: dixon@ihuxl.UUCP (D. A. Dixon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: question about ctime(3) and time(2)
Message-ID: <1047@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 10:25:55 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1047
Posted: Mon Apr 16 10:25:55 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 07:17:32 EST
Organization: Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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Two points regarding the program 

main()
{
	long i;
	char *t;

	t = ctime(time(&i));
}


1.) time() returns a long where as ctime() requires the address of
    a long;

2.) on a PDP 11 you must declare time() to be a function returning
    a long, otherwise it will default to a function returning an
    int (which is a 16 bit quantity on the PDP 11). Also, as a matter
    of form you should declare ctime() to be a function returning a
    pointer.



D A Dixon
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