From: N N Ashok <nalkunda@cse.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:27:41 -0500 I did see that. But however, I could not understand how "struct rtable" can be casted to "struct dst_entry" and then back again, all the while accessing fields of both structures. You miss the point that they are the same structure. It is allocated the size of "struct rtable" but it may be casted back and forth between rtable and dst_entry as desired. void foo(void) { struct rtable rt; struct dst_entry *dst; rt->u.dst.bar = 1; dst = (struct dst_entry *) &rt; ASSERT(dst->bar == 1); dst = &rt->u.dst; ASSERT(dst->bar == 1); } - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html