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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: finding offset of a member in C structures
Message-ID: <16210@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 May 91 02:45:59 GMT
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In article <1991May20.201857.635@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> osbornk@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kasey S. Osborn) writes:
-In article <16194@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-|Standard C provides an offsetof() macro, ...
-Really?  I can't find a reference to offsetof() in any of my C references.
-In fact, GNU CC does not preprocess offsetof() and instead treats it as an
-external reference.  Are you sure this is standard?

Jesus, what a stupid question.

-What compiler are you using?  What is the syntax of offsetof()?  I've
-been trying to find a palatable solution to this problem with no luck.

Why don't you try looking in the index of the C standard?