On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:48:03AM +0530, Neeraj wrote: > What would then ((struct a *)0L)->field refer to and how will the compiler know > that (null-pointer)->field is required to evaluate the offset of field in the > structure "a" ? This is a reasonable question (in fact, I believe that offsetof() is impossible to implement in a standards-compliant version according to some versions of the C/C++ standards) but it's completely offtopic. Please take the discussion to comp.lang.c or some other suitable forum. thanks, john -- "I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt." - Herb Sutter -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
