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| -rw-r--r-- | src/ini.cpp | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/ini.cpp b/src/ini.cpp index defc913c9..61ac06289 100644 --- a/src/ini.cpp +++ b/src/ini.cpp @@ -146,7 +146,19 @@ void IniFile::LoadFromDisk(const char *filename) uint comment_alloc = 0; size_t end; - FILE *in = FioFOpenFile(filename, "r", DATA_DIR, &end); + /* + * Now we are going to open a file that contains no more than simple + * plain text. That would raise the question: "why open the file as + * if it is a binary file?". That's simple... Microsoft, in all + * their greatness and wisdom decided it would be useful if ftell + * is aware of '\r\n' and "sees" that as a single character. The + * easiest way to test for that situation is by searching for '\n' + * and decrease the value every time you encounter a '\n'. This will + * thus also make ftell "see" the '\r' when it is not there, so the + * result of ftell will be highly unreliable. So to work around this + * marvel of wisdom we have to open in as a binary file. + */ + FILE *in = FioFOpenFile(filename, "rb", DATA_DIR, &end); if (in == NULL) return; end += ftell(in); |