AVR-Chat

At 07:16 PM 4/25/05 +0000, arhodes19044 wrote:
>It has been a long time since I worked with structures.  Is there a
>way to get the offset of the element within the structure?
>Something like "&structure.element".  This way, I can start with the
>location of the structure in SRAM or in EEPROM and then access the
>individual element by base + offset.  Will sizeof() work with
>structure elements?

Look for the standard macro offsetof().  And yes sizeof works with 
structure elements, although depending on the compiler and micro adding up 
the sizes of the previous elements will not necessarily give the same 
answer as offsetof (I expect it would on an AVR).

Robert

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