Shaun Jackman submitted a patch converting an allocation to use

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

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/date.c b/coreutils/date.c
index 513aadeec..70484e2cd 100644
--- 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;
 }