Re: problems with interfacing c

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:50 +0100, Stoik <staszek.goldstein@gmail.com> a  
écrit:
> Thanks for your suggestions and comments. The point is that I am sending
> a solution to a problem to a site managing programming contests, and the  
> stdin
> is in fact redirected to some text file with data. I do not know how
> big the data file will be, I know only the upper limit. Quick reading of 
> the data is the key to success, and the two lines of C work very well for
> the purpose. I have not tried your solution, is it not going to cause
> constraint_error when it meets the end of the file?
Why not simply get the file size before reading its content ? You seem to  
suggest you have to read from the file, not from the standard input  
stream, so should be OK (that's a very strange contest this one… the  
execution speed will more depend on runtime and platform than to your art).

> The other question is - how to use the C bindings properly in such a
> case?
For that purpose, there is no good way, because this is ... heuu... stupid  
(oops). There may be proper ways to bind to something else, not to this.

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