how about sizeof(((type *)1)->member) ?
Dave Decot
decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Sun Oct 29 05:54:05 AEST 1989
> In article <1989Oct27.141015.20578 at talos.uucp> kjones at talos.uu.net writes:
> >If sizeof(((type *)0)->member) is forbidden, then is
> >sizeof(((type *)1)->member) forbidden as well, in pANS
> >conforming programs?
>
> The latter is not guaranteed to work in all implementations,
> due to variation in addressing architectures (and memory "models").
> For example, "type" objects may require quadword alignment,
> and the compiler can easily tell that the address constant value 1
> does not satisfy that constraint.
OK, fine. My what a tiresome language. Here:
sizeof(((struct foo *)(sizeof(struct foo)))->member)
Dave
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