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Re: container_of macro...

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: container_of macro...
Date 2022-11-01 11:06 +0000
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> On 10/31/22 06:27, tylo wrote:
> ..
>> #define container_of(ptr, type, member) \
>>   ((type*)((char*)(ptr) + 0*sizeof((ptr) == &((type*)0)->member) -
> offsetof(type, member)))
>
> (type*)0->member dereferences a null pointer. As a result, such code has
> undefined behavior.

It's in the unevaluated operand of the sizeof operator.  The comparison
is there just to provoke type-checking (the main thrust of this
subthread) and I imagine the sizeof is there to avoid the implied UB.

-- 
Ben.

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Re: container_of macro... tylo <tylovset@gmail.com> - 2022-10-31 03:27 -0700
  Re: container_of macro... James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-11-01 00:20 -0400
    Re: container_of macro... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-11-01 11:06 +0000
      Re: container_of macro... tylo <tylovset@gmail.com> - 2022-11-02 07:15 -0700
        Re: container_of macro... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-11-02 16:00 +0000
          Re: container_of macro... Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-11-02 21:00 -0400
            Re: container_of macro... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-11-03 01:03 +0000
              Re: container_of macro... Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-11-02 21:43 -0400
                Re: container_of macro... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-11-03 15:29 +0000
                Re: container_of macro... tylo <tylovset@gmail.com> - 2022-11-16 03:38 -0800
            Re: container_of macro... James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-11-03 00:15 -0400
          Re: container_of macro... Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-11-19 06:35 -0800
        Re: container_of macro... David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-11-02 17:31 +0100
        Re: container_of macro... Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-11-02 10:09 -0700
          Re: container_of macro... Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-11-19 11:27 -0800
      Re: container_of macro... James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-11-03 00:14 -0400
        Re: container_of macro... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-02 21:28 -0700
          Re: container_of macro... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-02 21:29 -0700

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