C read binary stdin

Question

I\'m trying to build an instruction pipeline simulator and I\'m having a lot of trouble getting started. What I need to do is read binary from stdin, and then store it in me

Answer 1

I had to piece the answer together from the various comments from the kind people above, so here is a fully-working sample that works - only for Windows, but you can probably translate the windows-specific stuff to your platform.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "windows.h"
#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    char rbuf[4096];
    char *deffile = "c:\\temp\\outvideo.bin";
    size_t r;
    char *outfilename = deffile;
    FILE *newin;

    freopen(NULL, "rb", stdin);
    _setmode(_fileno(stdin), _O_BINARY);

    FILE *f = fopen(outfilename, "w+b");
    if (f == NULL)
    {
        printf("unable to open %s\n", outfilename);
        exit(1);
    }

    for (;; )
    {
        r = fread(rbuf, 1, sizeof(rbuf), stdin);
        if (r > 0)
        {
            size_t w;
            for (size_t nleft = r; nleft > 0; )
            {
                w = fwrite(rbuf, 1, nleft, f);
                if (w == 0)
                {
                    printf("error: unable to write %d bytes to %s\n", nleft, outfilename);
                    exit(1);
                }
                nleft -= w;
                fflush(f);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Sleep(10); // wait for more input, but not in a tight loop
        }
    }

    return 0;
}