Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> (2) fixed locally, no patch
>
> On my system the week starts with Saturday. For some strange reason I get
> (from GNU libc 2.3.6, i686)
> (int)(intptr_t)nl_langinfo(_NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY) = 19971130
> *nl_langinfo(_NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY)) = 7
> and consequently
> weekstart = 6 (Sat).
>
> This has the effect that 'cal 9 1752' yields a segmentation fault whereas
> 'cal -j 9 1752' prints garbage.
>
> The proper code should make absolutely sure that 0<=weekstart<=6 (no matter
> what results from nl_langinfo), otherwise the next patch may fail as well.
>
> My solution is to disable the piece of code computing a locale dependent
> value for weekstart.
What is your locale? Perhaps you can check the latest glibc settings
for your locale and log a change request if they're incorrect.
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 ./cal 9 1752
September 1752
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
1 2 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
cheers,
Pádraig.
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