Re: mapping a C structure

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From: Stephen Baynes
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 09:44

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Owen Townsend (owent@vanbc.wimsey.com) wrote:
: Does anybody have a program to calculate byte displacements for all fields
: within a C structure ?

You ANSI standard C compiler should have offsetof defined in <stddef.h>.

: I am assisting mainframe COBOL users to convert to Unix Micro Focus COBOL

ANSI C does not require that the compiler handling of structures is in anyway 
compatible with any other compiler, cobol or otherwise.

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Stephen Baynes                              baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl
Philips Semiconductors Ltd
Southampton                                 My views are my own.
United Kingdom

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