From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ios::binary ignored by GCC - HELP!
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:29:38 -0500
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sl wrote:
> 
> On 7 Nov 1998 01:49:05 GMT, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> >: does one go about fixing this?
> >
> >Try "fprintf(f, "%c", 7);" or the equivalent in C++ (I don't know
> >C++).
> 
>         But then what happens when/if I try to write "int" to the file? All
> it really requires is two bytes, but GCC writes it out as its text
> counterpart for some reason..

Gill, it is not just gcc.  All C and C++ compilers treat requesrs for
formatted ouput (*printf()) as requests for formatted output.  If you
have an object of type T that you want to write to a stream s:

#include <stdio.h>
T object;
FILE *s;
/* ... */
fwrite(&object, sizeof object, 1, s);
   /* or */
fwrite(&object, sizeof(T), 1, s);


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