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Le Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:50 +0100, Stoik <staszek.goldstein@gmail.com> =
a  =

=C3=A9crit:
> Thanks for your suggestions and comments. The point is that I am sendi=
ng
> a solution to a problem to a site managing programming contests, and t=
he  =

> 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 t=
o  =

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=E2=80=A6=
 the  =

execution speed will more depend on runtime and platform than to your ar=
t).

> 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... stup=
id  =

(oops). There may be proper ways to bind to something else, not to this.=


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