Two standards problems

[Larry Breed]

In article <10724 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>->(Q11) Can offsetof take "field1.field2" as its second argument ?
>
>This doesn't seem to have been the intent of Standard section 4.1.5.
>
Actually it was the intent.  Earlier drafts defined
	offsetof(type, identifier)  
where the identifier designated a member.  

The final draft defined
	offsetof(type, member-designator)
and says "... the member-designator shall be such that given
	static type t;
then the expression &(t.member-designator) evaluates to an address constant."
This change was made specifically to allow things like

	offsetof(struct fancy, inner_struct.a[10])

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