Offsetof - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
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### 6.50 Offsetof

GCC implements for both C and C++ a syntactic extension to implement the `offsetof` macro.

         primary:
                 "__builtin_offsetof" "(" typename "," offsetof_member_designator ")"

         offsetof_member_designator:
                   identifier
                 | offsetof_member_designator "." identifier
                 | offsetof_member_designator "[" expr "]"

This extension is sufficient such that

         #define offsetof(type, member)  __builtin_offsetof (type, member)

is a suitable definition of the `offsetof` macro. In C++, type may be dependent. In either case, member may consist of a single identifier, or a sequence of member accesses and array references.