Re: offsets of fields in a structure

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Giulio Rossato 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?

Your code will need to express the rules which the compiler uses to
lay out structures; there is no mechanism to obtain this information
from the compiler.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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