offset of structure fields

[llewelly@xmission.com]

Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> writes:

> Hi Massimiliano,
> 
>  >I'm using gcc 3.3.2 cross compiler for renesas h8s micros, and it
> doesn't work.
> 
> What does it do?
> 
> Can you drop in the offsetof macro?
> 
> #define offsetof(s_type,field) ((size_t)&(((s_type*)0)->field))
> 
>  >In the official gcc docs it seems that offsetof (and
> __builtin_offsetof) is supported in version 3.5.0.
> 
> Then can you use GCC 3.5.0 (pre)?

This probably isn't a good idea right now. AFAICT, mainline (gcc
    3.5.0) is particularly unstable right now, even more so than
    usual.