Shaun Jackman submitted a patch converting an allocation to use

CONFIG_RESERVE_BUFFER.  (Rob Landley removed an #ifdef, per discussion on
the list.)

diff --git a/coreutils/date.c b/coreutils/date.c
index 513aadeec9be0e2e37814d0f961eb8470916d70c..70484e2cd3484f89bd02ebaf52dbe734a634c832 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/date.c
+++ b/coreutils/date.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ int date_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
        char *date_str = NULL;
        char *date_fmt = NULL;
-       char *t_buff;
        int set_time;
        int utc;
        int use_arg = 0;
@@ -283,10 +282,13 @@ int date_main(int argc, char **argv)
                date_fmt = "%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S";
        }
 
-       /* Print OUTPUT (after ALL that!) */
-       t_buff = xmalloc(201);
-       strftime(t_buff, 200, date_fmt, &tm_time);
-       puts(t_buff);
+       {
+               /* Print OUTPUT (after ALL that!) */
+               RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER(t_buff, 201);
+               strftime(t_buff, 200, date_fmt, &tm_time);
+               puts(t_buff);
+               RELEASE_CONFIG_BUFFER(t_buff);
+       }
 
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }