NAME¶

SDL_LoadFile - Load all the data from a file path.

HEADER FILE¶

Defined in SDL3/SDL_iostream.h

SYNOPSIS¶

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

void * SDL_LoadFile(const char *file, size_t *datasize);

DESCRIPTION¶

The data is allocated with a zero byte at the end (null terminated) for convenience. This extra byte is not included in the value reported via datasize .

The data should be freed with SDL_free ().

FUNCTION PARAMETERS¶

file

the path to read all available data from.

datasize

if not NULL, will store the number of bytes read.

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns the data or NULL on failure; call

SDL_GetError () for more information.

AVAILABILITY¶

This function is available since SDL 3.1.3.

SEE ALSO¶

•(3), SDL_LoadFile_IO(3)