WHY is this crashing???!!!

[Pat Rankin]

In article <6246 at mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, robert at triton.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino) writes...
> I have this code that keeps going out to lunch.  Any suggestions
> are welcome.

     Why all the VMS-specific date/time manipulation?  time(), mktime()
and asctime() work fine.  If you can't use mktime() for some reason, then
SYS$NUMTIM() will fill in an array of date/time fields.

>        date->tm_year = atoi(ptr);  
> It CRASHES at the "atoi" call.
> %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=04, virtual address=00000014, 

     'date' is almost certainly a NULL pointer.  Perhaps it's time to learn
how to use the debugger?

		Pat Rankin, rankin at eql.caltech.edu