Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since in this particular case, member is the first field, > one could also write > > for (pos = (struct item *)clh.next; ...) > > I hear that > > "C specifies that a struct * can be converted to and from a > pointer to its first element." > > Does that change anything? Yes, it should generally be OK to cast between a pointer to a struct type and a pointer to the type of the first element of the struct. Ian