file size stored inside file?
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garan
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file size stored inside file?
how come lots of file formats include the size of the file inside the file? why not just seek to the end and ftell()? it seems like a waste of bytes
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rabatini
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Re: file size stored inside file?
garan wrote:how come lots of file formats include the size of the file inside the file? why not just seek to the end and ftell()? it seems like a waste of bytes
Because games works with TOC/LBA.
it cannot just seektoend because the game works with many files with in loadeded into ram and need pointers because its not an individual file.
So generally have a table pointing the files begin and end.
or some kind of math to do the same job.
I strongly suggest you read some document of asmromhacking.
Because its seems you are very newbie in this subject.