#include #include #include // allocates a buffer! char * buffer_pdl(char * filename) { FILE *f = fopen(filename, "rb"); if (f == NULL) { printf("Opening pdl file returned errno %d!\n", errno); exit(1); } fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END); long fsize = ftell(f); fseek(f, 0, SEEK_SET); char *pdl = malloc(fsize + 1); fread(pdl, 1, fsize, f); fclose(f); pdl[fsize] = 0; return pdl; }