offsetof() macro

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

  I think I asked this before, but I didn't see any answers. If you wish
feel free to mail instead of post.

  What good is offsetof? What wonderful things can I do with it that I
can't do without it, and are they things the average system hacker would
want to do. The only use for it which comes to mind is playing with
individual fields in a file  of structs, hardly common enough to justify
mandating a feature in the language.

  I read 4.1.5 and there is no info on what great things this does for
me. I have great respect for the committee and I'm sure there's a reason
why this was added, but it escapes me.

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