QTSettings with ini file format ignores first section unless preceded by comment

[feraudyh]

Hi all,
I am getting bizarre behaviour from QSettings
I want to use it with an ini file.
so I do something like this

m_settings = new QSettings("settings.ini",QSettings::IniFormat);

m_settings = new QSettings("settings.ini",QSettings::IniFormat);

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Now if I have a first "section"( beginning with [Env]) then all settings in that section are ignored: reading with m_settings->value(...) returns the "fallback" value.
The following sections are properly read however
Now if I precede by first section with a comment starting with # then mysteriously all settings in that ini file are read properly.
Is this a bug or a feature or is a Byte Order Mark doing its dirty work here?