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Great!  I do not remember the "offsetof()" function.  I will look it 
up right now.  THANKS

-Tony

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Robert Adsett <subscriptions@a...> 
wrote:
> 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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