From 43356e66c8044b5b6c0f41ac54b9a06f6a46a423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: searchivairus <leo@boytsov.info>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:11:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] A fix for the broken Build on Windows #119

---
 similarity_search/src/method/hnsw.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/similarity_search/src/method/hnsw.cc b/similarity_search/src/method/hnsw.cc
index 6b4d778..6aa8b1e 100644
--- a/similarity_search/src/method/hnsw.cc
+++ b/similarity_search/src/method/hnsw.cc
@@ -958,7 +958,8 @@ namespace similarity {
     void
     Hnsw<dist_t>::LoadIndex(const string &location) {
         LOG(LIB_INFO) << "Loading index from " << location;
-        std::ifstream input(location);//, std::ios::binary);
+        std::ifstream input(location, 
+                            std::ios::binary); /* text files can be opened in binary mode as well */
         CHECK_MSG(input, "Cannot open file '" + location + "' for reading");
 
         input.exceptions(ios::badbit | ios::failbit);