(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_LoadFile_IO

Load all the data from an SDL data stream.

Header File

Syntax

void* SDL_LoadFile_IO(SDL_IOStream *src, size_t *datasize, SDL_bool closeio);

Function Parameters

src	the SDL_IOStream to read all available data from
datasize	if not NULL, will store the number of bytes read
closeio	if SDL_TRUE, calls SDL_CloseIO() on `src` before returning, even in the case of an error

Return Value

Returns the data, or NULL if there was an error.

Remarks

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().

Version

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.