fixed gmtime() crash on Linux

PureSwift · May 20, 2016 · 6a29f30 · 6a29f30
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Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/Sources/SwiftFoundation/POSIXTime.swift b/Sources/SwiftFoundation/POSIXTime.swift
@@ -80,10 +80,11 @@ public extension tm {
 
         var seconds = UTCSecondsSince1970
 
+        // don't free!
+        // The return value points to a statically allocated struct which might be overwritten by subsequent calls to any of the date and time functions.
+        // http://linux.die.net/man/3/gmtime
         let timePointer = gmtime(&seconds)!
 
-        defer { free(timePointer) }
-
         self = timePointer.pointee
     }
 }