Guys,
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ? If not, what are the reasons
for not doing this subtraction ?
Thanks for any help ...
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On Aug 8, 1:11 am, "junky_fel...@yahoo.co.in"
<junky_fel...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
Guys,
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ? If not, what are the reasons
for not doing this subtraction ?
Thanks for any help ...
You acknowledge the existence of offsetof() but then proceed to ask
for ways to re-implement the exact same behavior... why do you need to
do this? ju**********@yahoo.co.in wrote:
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ?
Yes.
If not, what are the reasons
for not doing this subtraction ?
(a) It's only defined to work if you /have/ an instance of the structure.
(Otherwise, there's nothing to take the address of.)
(b) offsetof exists. Someone's done the work for me. Laziness rules!
--
Chris "to check one's laziness is aligned" Dollin
Hewlett-Packard Limited registered office: Cain Road, Bracknell,
registered no: 690597 England Berks RG12 1HN
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:11:32 -0700, ju**********@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Guys,
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ?
You have to convert them both to unsigned char *.
If not, what are the reasons for not doing this subtraction ?
Because there's no need to reinvent the wheel.
--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained
by stupidity." -- R. J. Hanlon (?)
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:26:39 +0200, Army1987 <ar******@NOSPAM.it>
wrote:
>On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:11:32 -0700, ju**********@yahoo.co.in wrote:
>Guys,
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ?
You have to convert them both to unsigned char *.
If the only action is to subtract one pointer from another, any of the
char types will work.
>
>If not, what are the reasons for not doing this subtraction ?
Because there's no need to reinvent the wheel.
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On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:58 -0700, Barry Schwarz <sc******@doezl.net>
wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:26:39 +0200, Army1987 <ar******@NOSPAM.it>
wrote:
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:11:32 -0700, ju**********@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Guys,
I want to find out an offset of a member inside a structure.
Although, there is a macro (offsetof) available to do this. Still, I
have one question. Can I subtract the address of the member from the
address of structure to get the offset ?
Other way, obviously: subtract base address from member address.
You have to convert them both to unsigned char *.
If the only action is to subtract one pointer from another, any of the
char types will work.
Right.
If not, what are the reasons for not doing this subtraction ?
Because there's no need to reinvent the wheel.
Right.
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