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?

[anda_skoa]

Works for me

#include <QDebug>
#include <QSettings>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QTemporaryFile>
#include <QTextStream>
 
int main()
{
  QTemporaryFile tmpFile;
  if ( !tmpFile.open() ) {
    return 1;
  }
 
  const QString fileName = tmpFile.fileName();
 
  QTextStream stream( &tmpFile );
  stream << QLatin1String( "[Env]" ) << endl << "Driver=QSQLITE" << endl;
  stream << "Name=some name" << endl;
  tmpFile.close();
 
  QSettings settings( fileName, QSettings::IniFormat );
  qDebug() << "childGroups=" << settings.childGroups();
 
  qDebug() << "Driver=" << settings.value("Env/Driver");  
  qDebug() << "Name=" << settings.value("Env/Name");
 
  return 0; 
}

#include <QDebug>
#include <QSettings>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QTemporaryFile>
#include <QTextStream>

int main()
{
  QTemporaryFile tmpFile;
  if ( !tmpFile.open() ) {
    return 1;
  }
  
  const QString fileName = tmpFile.fileName();
  
  QTextStream stream( &tmpFile );
  stream << QLatin1String( "[Env]" ) << endl << "Driver=QSQLITE" << endl;
  stream << "Name=some name" << endl;
  tmpFile.close();
  
  QSettings settings( fileName, QSettings::IniFormat );
  qDebug() << "childGroups=" << settings.childGroups();

  qDebug() << "Driver=" << settings.value("Env/Driver");  
  qDebug() << "Name=" << settings.value("Env/Name");
 
  return 0; 
}

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I get

childGroups= ("Env") 
Driver= QVariant(QString, "QSQLITE")
Name= QVariant(QString, "some name")

childGroups= ("Env") 
Driver= QVariant(QString, "QSQLITE")
Name= QVariant(QString, "some name")

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Cheers,
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