Question

I am trying to read an entire jpg file in binary mode using visual c++. The code is as follows:

FILE *fd = fopen("c:\\Temp\\img.jpg", "rb");
if(fd == NULL) {
    cerr << "Error opening file\n";
    return;
}

fseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
long fileSize = ftell(fd);
int *stream = (int *)malloc(fileSize);
cout << fileSize << '\n';
fseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
int bytes_read = fread(stream, fileSize, 1, fd);
printf("%i\n", bytes_read);
fclose(fd);

The problem is that the bytes_read is always 1. The fileSize variable contains the correct size of the file. So I am not sure why the bytes_read is always 1 and not equal to fileSize..?

Answer 1

int n_read = fread(stream, fileSize, 1, fd);

returns the number of chunks of size fileSize you got. In this case 1.

Look at section 7.21.8.1 of the C standard:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf (page 334)

So you need to multiply n_read with fileSize to get the number of bytes read.