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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Constant expressions in initializers
Message-ID: <12570009@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 20:11:50 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> struct dummy Dummy = { offsetof(struct dummy,f),
>                        2.0 };

Also try:

   char SmallArray [ offsetof(struct dummy, f) ];

   ...
   struct something {
      int i : offsetof (struct dummy, f);
   };

   ...
   switch (i) {
      case offsetof (struct dummy, f):   break;
   }

   ...
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Shankar Unni.