Fwd: Question about container_of macro.

Hi,

I am sorry for spamming, it really isn't a usb related question, but I
didn't get the answer on kernelnewbies list. I am sure will get it
from here........atleast from Greg :-) since I am referring his
article.


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From: Manish Katiyar <[email protected]>
Date: Jan 16, 2008 11:08 PM
Subject: Question about container_of macro.
To: kernelnewbies <[email protected]>


Hi,

It might be a very silly question, but I was going through the
definition and explaination of container_of macro from the below link
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/container_of.html.

However what i understood is that, given a pointer to one of the
members of a structure, it would return a pointer to the parent
structure.

My question is instead of defining container_of as:

#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
                const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr);
                (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})


Why won't this simply work :

#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
                        (type *)( (char *)(ptr) - offsetof(type,member) );})


Since even after declaring __mptr as member type we are anyway
typecasting it to char *. I am sure I must be missing something very
silly :-( ...

Thanks in advance.

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Off Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore 560071, India
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