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/**
 * Read all bytes from a file.
 * 
 * Taken from http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/22901/reading-all-bytes-from-a-file
 * 
 * Alternate form: static void ReadAllBytes(char const* filename, std::vector<char>& result)
 */

#include <vector>
#include <fstream>

static std::vector<char> ReadAllBytes(char const* filename)
{
    ifstream ifs(filename, ios::binary|ios::ate);
    ifstream::pos_type pos = ifs.tellg();

    std::vector<char>  result(pos);

    ifs.seekg(0, ios::beg);
    ifs.read(&result[0], pos);

    return result;
}