From: H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:08:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fix printing of date with rating
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Fix printing of date with rating

The old code was not safe: it passed a (time_t*) pointing to an (in),
which included garbage if time_t was of larger size. This again made
localtime return a null-pointer, which would crash strftime.
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diff --git a/lasker-2.2.3/src/comproc.c b/lasker-2.2.3/src/comproc.c
index 97522e0..0487f88 100644
--- a/lasker-2.2.3/src/comproc.c
+++ b/lasker-2.2.3/src/comproc.c
@@ -125,9 +125,10 @@ static void com_stats_rating(char *hdr, struct statistics * stats, char *dest, l
 	  ratstr(stats->rating), current_sterr(stats->sterr, now-stats->ltime),
           stats->win, stats->los, stats->dra, stats->num);
   if (stats->whenbest) {
+    time_t besttime = stats->whenbest; // [HGM] time_t could have larger size than int, so don't pass localtime a pointer to it
     sprintf(tmp, "   %d", stats->best);
     strcat(dest, tmp);
-    strftime(tmp, sizeof(tmp), " (%d-%b-%Y)", localtime((time_t *) & stats->whenbest));
+    strftime(tmp, sizeof(tmp), " (%d-%b-%Y)", localtime(&besttime));
     strcat(dest, tmp);
   }
   strcat(dest, "\n");