From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Setting TZ in set_time_zone_rule Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:12:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83624pwq8z.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354126463 20734 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2012 18:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Fabrice Popineau To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 19:14:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdm9W-000479-52 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:14:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdm9K-0002Q3-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdm9F-0002Ov-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdm9B-0001U4-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:58765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdm9A-0001Tp-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:14:09 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ME700600MBRG300@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:12:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ME7006Z4MKQDI10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:12:26 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155114 Archived-At: Is there a good reason why we don't use 'putenv' in set_time_zone_rule, and instead manipulate 'environ' directly? Fabrice (CC'ed) reported that this causes crashes in Emacs compiled by MSVC on Windows, because xmalloc on Windows allocates memory from a different heap than what's used by the runtime library for 'environ'. But even without that problem, it looks like we go out of our way to solve a problem that is long solved by a standard library function. What am I missing?