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Subject: Re: offsetof in stddef [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> The reason stddef was included was for offsetof (at least for the
> genassym files). This we don't have to do know, but shouldn't we also
> define offsetof in stddef.h the same as in sys/types.h (in terms of
> __offsetof) to avoid redundancy?

We do, but the definition in <sys/types.h> has some lexical differences
in order to expose broken kernel code that includes <stddef.h>.  It
shouldn't be in <sys/types.h> anyway.

Bruce



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