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

A solution, based on the previous answers:

    size_t bytesRead = 0;
    BYTE* localBuffer = new BYTE[bytesTotal];
    fseek(stream,headerLen,SEEK_SET);
        while(!feof(stream) && !ferror(stream)) {
        size_t result = fread(localBuffer+bytesRead,sizeof(BYTE),bytesTotal-
        bytesRead,stream);
    bytesRead+=result;
}

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Also worth noting that simply including binmode.obj into your link command will do this for you for all file opens.