Exporting structure layout
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Wed May 11 19:00:00 GMT 2005
> Additional members are permitted, and the fields can be order. In
> order to create a portable Ada interface, I have to write a short C
> program which uses sizeof and offsetof to extract the structure
> layout. In theory, it is possible to create compile-time-only tests
> suitable for cross-compilation (compile-time constant expressions,
> invalid zero-length arrays, and a binary search), but this is rather
> messy.
Look at AC_COMPUTE_INT. It should be easy to start from there and do a
macro like
GCC_COMPUTE_MEMBERS_SIZE_OFFSET([#include <poll.h>],
[struct pollfd],
[fd events revents]).
Paolo
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