Re: offsetof and XtOffsetOf
The comment seems to suggest we copied the XtOffset stuff from apache
source (which copied it from X), verbatim, is that not explanation enough ?
Is there any particular reason to change it ?
Cheers
Joe
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Joe Watkins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Explained here: http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/main/php.h#415
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> The macro offsetof is required by the C89 standard to be defined in
> >> stddef.h and remains in newer standards. The macro XtOffsetOf is
> >> non-standard that is as far as I can tell a part of the X Toolkit
> >> Intrinsics or Xlib.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know the reasons why we are using the non-standard macro
> >> instead of the standard one?
>
> Thanks, Joe. However, that code just explains why are macros are that
> way. It doesn't justify the use of XtOffsetOf over offsetof, just how
> the ifdefs were obtained.
>
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