Why is fread reaching the EOF early?

Question

I am writing a C library that reads a file into memory. It skips the first 54 bytes of the file (header) and then reads the remainder as data. I use fseek to determine the l

Answer 1

perhaps it's a binary mode issue. Try opening the file with "r+b" as the mode.

EDIT: as noted in a comment "rb" is likely a better match to your original intent since "r+b" will open it for read/write and "rb" is read-only.