From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: having problem with malloc
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:06:28 GMT, eglebbk AT dds DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
wrote:

>>int getfilelen(unsigned char *file) {
>There has to be a library function to do this (or maybe it's stored in
>the FILE * structure); though it's not standard ANSI. Might be Posix,
>but someone else would probably know better.

fopen() the file
fseek() to end
ftell() gives length
fseek() back to beginning

>If you want to allocate a
>block of memory set to all 0's, as it looks like you want, the library
>function calloc does that, so you could use that rather than malloc.

Is calloc() defined in ANSI, POSIX, Borland GNU, or what?

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