From: "John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange pointer manipulation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:40:13 -0500
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DeHackEd wrote:

> There is a built-in C command called offsetof(struct, entry).

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> No need for any GCC-specific magic: `offsetof' is ANSI C.  It's
> amazing how many people miss that feature.

  Thankyou both.  That is exactly what I needed.  I have been
programming C for many years, frequently wanted that feature
and never knew it was available.

BTW, after I got your messages, it took me a little while to
figure out why it didn't initially work.  Given the name,
I was able to do a search and find it in stddef.h.  (once I
include stddef.h it works).  It turns out it is a macro and
it uses a method similar to the one I tried.  It just does
it in a slightly cleaner way that doesn't confuse the GCC
optimizer, the way mine did.
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