From 7a7f977d4363fc6240a2db2fd36cd614c5bd2c68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:40:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] misc: add type-safe "offsetof"

This uses the GCC extension "typeof" to implement a type-safe "offsetof"
similar to the implementation in the linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
---
 src/misc.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/misc.h b/src/misc.h
index d0a68e2..2f53994 100644
--- a/src/misc.h
+++ b/src/misc.h
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@
 
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+/* miscellaneous */
+
+#define kmscon_offsetof(pointer, type, member) ({ \
+		const typeof(((type*)0)->member) *__ptr = (pointer); \
+		(type*)(((char*)__ptr) - offsetof(type, member)); \
+	})
 
 /* ring buffer for arbitrary byte-streams */