NAME¶

SDL_LoadFile - Load all the data from a file path.

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 if there was an error.

AVAILABILITY¶

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.

SEE ALSO¶

SDL_LoadFile_IO(3)