Finding offset of a structure element in c

Question

struct a
{
    struct b
    {
        int i;
        float j;
    }x;
    struct c
    {
        int k;  
        float l;
    }y;
}z;

Can anybody

Answer 1

As already suggested, you should use the offsetof() macro from , which yields the offset as a size_t value.

For example:

#include 
#include 
#include "struct_a.h"  /* Header defining the structure in the question */

int main(void)
{
    size_t off_k_y = offsetof(struct c, k);
    size_t off_k_z = offsetof(struct a, y.k);
    size_t off_i_x = offsetof(struct b, i);
    size_t off_i_z = offsetof(struct a, x.i);

    printf("k = %zu %zu; i = %zu %zu\n", off_k_y, off_k_z, off_i_x, off_i_z);
    return 0;
}

Example output:

k = 0 8; i = 0 0