My environment is CentOS 5.2, libc-2.5, perl-5.10.0

I've been playing with 5.10.1 under Ubuntu 9.10: 

mehere@mehere-desktop:~/test$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) 4.4.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There i
+s NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR
+POSE.

[download]

...but, as a guest running within a VirtualBox on a Vista host.

Ie. I have little faith that anything that works (or fails) here will produce the same results under any other circumstances :)

(P.S.) You aren't the first to be bitten by the "malloc thing" in XS code. Truth beknown--if they'd all admit to it--we've all been there.

Your discovery regarding not requiring tzset() in the main thread are interesting. It stimulates several possibilities. And when I am less sleep deprived, I may persue them to a (minorly) significant conclusion.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
RIP PCW It is as I've been saying!(Audio until 20090817)

In reply to Re^6: Standard way to convert timezone in multithreaded script by BrowserUk
in thread Standard way to convert timezone in multithreaded script by whale2

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