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From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger)
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Subject: Re: Aztec 1.06H.1 disk & nested func calls
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Date: Tue, 1-Jul-86 16:59:04 EDT
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> I was doing a call like:
> 
> strcpy(s, ctime(time((time_t)NULL)));
> 
> which apparently doesn't work right most of the time (I got address errors
> when it died).  Breaking the function calls apart, as in:
> 
> time(&foo);
> bar = ctime(&foo);
> strcpy(s, bar);
> 
> (where foo, bar, s, etc. all have the appropriate definitions) seems to have
> fixed the problem.

These are not equivalent!  "time((time_t)NULL)" does not return a 
pointer, it returns a time_t.  Ctime, however, does expect a 
pointer, which you properly passed in your second version.  There 
is no way to nest them, in this case.  
-- 
Robert Berlinger
Systems Analyst
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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