move container_of to types.h

The container_of macro is useful as a general solution.  It belongs
in types.h, rather than target.h where it was introduced.  Requires
the offsetof macro, which comes from <stddef.h> (moved as well).
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Zachary T Welch
2009-11-16 02:29:09 -08:00
parent cbc0578372
commit f0ce88b3af
2 changed files with 15 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#ifndef TYPES_H
#define TYPES_H
#include <stddef.h>
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
@@ -58,6 +59,20 @@ typedef bool _Bool;
#define stringify(s) __stringify(s)
#define __stringify(s) #s
/**
* Cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure.
* @param ptr The pointer to the member.
* @param type The type of the container struct this is embedded in.
* @param member The name of the member within the struct.
*
* This is a mechanism which is used throughout the Linux kernel.
*/
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
(type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
/* DANGER!!!! here be dragons!
*
* Leave these fn's as byte accesses because it is safe