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Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fix... by chadgpt3 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:11AM (#48553003)
Why does your fread to anything other than multiplying the two arguments?
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Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fix... by Sesse__ on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:20AM (#48553499)
The idea of having two arguments to fread() is presumably to be able to do something else than all-or-nothing when there's a short read.
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Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fix... by chadgpt3 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:58AM (#48553846)
Yes, it divides the bytes read by the element size to get the return value.

Which is the obvious reason you'd pass an element size of 1: you want to know how many bytes were read.

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