From: "Jan Smout" <jan.smout@gmail.com>
To: Giulio Rossato <giulio.rossato@infocamere.it>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: offsets of fields in a structure
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:50:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dde11ce0710191250t58493199ka61cde50a27cb6e7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4718CCE2.9060202@infocamere.it>
On 19/10/2007, Giulio Rossato <giulio.rossato@infocamere.it> wrote:
> I want write a function that receives as parameters a start address and
> a "description of a structure" and returns the offsets of the fields.
> The structure is not known at compile time. The offsets should be
> calculated at runtime and the code should be independent of the machine.
> How should be written this function?
Have a look at the Linux manpage for the "offsetof(type,
member)"-macro from stddef.h. It will probably not be exactly what
you're looking for, but might be a starting point which gets you
going.
Jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 15:27 offsets of fields in a structure Giulio Rossato
2007-10-19 16:30 ` ninjaboy
2007-10-19 17:35 ` LaPoint, Adam W
2007-10-19 18:07 ` LaPoint, Adam W
2007-10-19 18:11 ` Glynn Clements
2007-10-19 19:50 ` Jan Smout [this message]
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