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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH RFC] libnetlink: introduce DECLARE_NLREQ
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:00:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151126140001.GA14223@orbit.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaegx3sh.fsf@stressinduktion.org>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 02:56:30PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > +#define DECLARE_NLREQ(name, hdrname, payload, tailroom)                       \
> > +	struct {                                                              \
> > +		struct nlmsghdr hdrname;                                      \
> > +		payload;                                                      \
> > +		char __b[tailroom] __attribute__((aligned(NLMSG_ALIGNTO)));   \
> > +	} name = { .hdrname = {                                               \
> > +		.nlmsg_len = (unsigned long)&name.__b - (unsigned long)&name, \
> 
> offsetof(typeof(name), __b) ?

Ah, thanks! I already considered offsetof(), but the fact it needs a
type name and the declared struct is anonymous appeared unsolvable to
me. Good to know typeof() can be used this way!

Thanks, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-26 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 13:26 [iproute PATCH RFC] libnetlink: introduce DECLARE_NLREQ Phil Sutter
2015-11-26 13:56 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-11-26 14:00   ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2015-11-29 20:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-29 21:40   ` Phil Sutter
2015-11-30 15:47   ` Phil Sutter
2015-11-30 17:20     ` Stephen Hemminger

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