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In article <453r0e$d7g@news.intelsat.int>,
 <suresh@pc4h29.adm.intelsat.int> wrote:

>Why is it that gettitmeofday fuction returns correct answers when the timeval
>and timezone parameters are passed as addresses rather than as pointe
>variables. i.e getitimeofday(&tp, &tzp) works. where as gettimeofday(tp, tzp)
>where tp and tzp are declared as 
>      struct timeval *tp; struct timezone *tzp;    does not work.

Most likely you forgot to have tp and tzp point to something valid;
e.g.,
     tp = malloc( sizeof *tp);
     tzp = malloc( sizeof *tzp);

Probably a comp.lang.c question.

Cheers,
Stan.
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