On Aug 16, 11:34am, gww@traakan.com ("Gordon Waidhofer") wrote:
-- Subject: RE: 64 bit inode changes

| > 
| > /* 
| >  * The _DIRENT_NAMEOFF macro returns the offset of the d_name field in
| >  * struct dirent
| >  */
| > #define _DIRENT_NAMEOFF(dp) \
| >     ((char *)(void *)&(dp)->d_name - (char *)(void *)dp)
| 
| Why the parameter 'dp' to DIRENT_NAMEOFF? Why wouldn't
| it just boil down to a constant? ((struct dirent *)0)

Because I can use this macro with struct dirent, struct dirent12, 
and struct direct. Otherwise I would need 3 macros.

christos