diff -r eca715c100fe -r 4e6e7cc6b50d bl/textfileutils.c
--- a/bl/textfileutils.c	Tue Jan 31 01:07:38 2012 +0000
+++ b/bl/textfileutils.c	Sat Jul 20 11:07:02 2013 +0100
@@ -3,26 +3,21 @@
 #include <bl/bl.h>
 
 /*
- * Read a file into memory (which should be freed with mem_free when no
+ * Read a file into memory (which should be freed with g_free when no
  * longer required). Returns NULL on error and outputs a suitable error
  * message to stderr.
  * DOS-style line endings and UTF-8 BOM are handled transparently even
  * on platforms which don't normally use these formats.
  */
 gboolean file_get_contents_text(const char *filename,char **contents,
-  size_t *length)
+  size_t *length,GError **err)
 {
     int i;
     unsigned char *raw;
-    size_t raw_length;
+    gsize raw_length;
     GString *string;
-    GError *error=NULL;
-    if (!g_file_get_contents(filename,(char *)&raw,&raw_length,&error))
-    {
-	fprintf(stderr,"%s: %s\n",filename,error->message);
-	g_error_free(error);
+    if (!g_file_get_contents(filename,(char **)&raw,&raw_length,err))
 	return FALSE;
-    }
     string=g_string_new(NULL);
     i=0;
     if (raw_length>=3 && raw[0]==0xEF && raw[1]==0xBB && raw[2]==0xBF)