ifstream read() loop

[eiji]

Hi folks,

I'm new to binary-file handling and try to work/learn playing around
with MD5.
Now everything works fine with small files, but when files get
bigger(e.g. 28MB) this loop stops in the second read()! I don't know
why!

typedef basic_ifstream<unsigned char> ifstream_uc;
void MD5::update (unsinged char *input, unsinged int input_length)
{...}

void MD5::update(ifstream_uc& stream){

unsigned char ubuffer[1024];
unsigned int len;

while (stream.good()){
cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::badbit ) << endl;
cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::failbit ) << endl;
cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::eofbit ) << endl << endl;

stream.read(ubuffer, 1024); // note that return value of read is
unusable.

cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::badbit ) << endl;
cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::failbit ) << endl;
cout << ( stream.rdstate( ) & ios::eofbit ) << endl << endl << endl;

len=static_cast<unsigned int>(stream.gcount());

update(ubuffer, len);
}

}

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Regards,
eiji

[eiji]

I "solved" the problem, just changing:

ifstream_uc file(filename);
to:
ifstream_uc file(filename, ios::binary);

This flag is not well documented. So what is the result of
opening in ios::binary-mode?
Stroustrup didn't say something about that.
I will move on "googleing".

Thanks,
Sascha