Reading a file chunk by chunk in QT 4.3.3 I have following  code in QT in 

// myEditor.h
class myEditor : QScintilla {
    public:
        readFile();
};

#include "myEditor.h"
// myEditor.cc
myEditor::readFile() {
   FILE* fp = fopen("mynew.v","r"):
   QTextStream ts(fp, QIODevice::ReadOnly);
   /* reading the  text stream  buffer by buffer
   bufferSize is calculated using following formula
   2 to power(k) *  n  =  2 to power 31*
   where n is  size of each block in linux filesystem*/

   int bufferSize =(1024* 1024)/2;
   do {
      QString s = ts.read(bufferSize);
      append(s);
    } while(!ts.atEnd());
}


I calculated the bufferSize as per comments .It will be helpful if someone can review the code and let me know if there are issues.
As you're storing the whole result into memory anyway for display in a text editor (so you're not expecting to load hundreds of MB of text), why not just use what Qt provides to read the entire file into a string in one call?

It's probably more than enough optimized for general purpose usage. Displaying the entire result in the editor might also be faster than constantly appending parts.

I also see that you're using the C API for opening the file (which is never closed) and then passing it to Qt. Qt has QFile for this, as shown in the link mentioned above.