Is there way to set stdout to binary mode?

Question

Is there way to set stdout to binary mode? In which mode is stdout without any operations, from my debugging issues I assume that it is in text mode, is it true?

I tried function:

freopen(NULL,"wb",stdout)

but my program is crashes when I'm doing it.

Answer 1

I tried code presented below to set stdin and stdout to binary mode (on Windows):

#ifdef _WIN32
  #include <io.h>
  #include <fcntl.h>
#endif
...
#ifdef _WIN32
  setmode(fileno(stdout),O_BINARY);
  setmode(fileno(stdin),O_BINARY);
#endif

Under Linux you can't do it, because on this platform binary and text mode is the same thing.