FAQ

• Q: Why don't you supply general data block I/O methods, taking void pointers as arguments, so i can read all my data into a struct at once?
• A: This, in general, is a broken idea. It only makes sense if you plan to write your program for only one architecture and want a fast way to read your whole data into memory. This is not what libbinio was meant for, so such methods will never be implemented. libbinio cannot know what data types your struct is made of and thus cannot do any transparent data conversion. And there's even more: Most compilers align their structs to a special multiple of bytes (mostly the current architecture's data word size). libbinio doesn't (and cannot) know about all this and would just read the data byte by byte, completely ignoring the alignment and causing you to be unable to read any of your data.
• Q: Why haven't you implemented error reporting using exceptions, instead of this darn error() method polling?
• A: Because exceptions aren't supported on all compiler platforms.