Top "Stdio" questions

Visual Studio 15 __imp___iob, __imp___pctype, __imp___mb_cur_max

I am trying to use a library compiled with mingw in visual studio. However, I get the following linker errors: …

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Is close/fclose on stdin guaranteed to be correct?

It seems as though the following calls do what you'd expect (close the stream and not allow any further input …

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Why is fread reaching the EOF early?

I am writing a C library that reads a file into memory. It skips the first 54 bytes of the file (…

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stdio.h not standard in C++?

I know most compilers allow both: #include <stdio.h> and #include <cstdio> But someone argued that &…

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Win32 - read from stdin with timeout

I'm trying to do something which I think should be simple: do a blocking read from standard input, but timing …

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Python: fork, pipe and exec

I want to execute a program in a python application, it will run in the background but eventually come to …

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Tried and true simple file copying code in C?

This looks like a simple question, but I didn't find anything similar here. Since there is no file copy function …

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How to read / parse input in C? The FAQ

I have problems with my C program when I try to read / parse input. Help? This is a FAQ entry. …

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C fgets versus fgetc for reading line

I need to read a line of text (terminated by a newline) without making assumptions about the length. So I …

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Where to find struct _IO_FILE

I was looking through /usr/include/stdio.h and happened to come across the following piece of code. /* Standard streams. */ …

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