Re: offsets of fields in a structure

On 19/10/2007, Giulio Rossato <[email protected]> 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