(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / offsetof.3

diff --git a/original/man3/offsetof.3 b/original/man3/offsetof.3
index 427da8d..83f314b 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/offsetof.3
+++ b/original/man3/offsetof.3
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
 .\"     and Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(PERMISSIVE_MISC)
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 .\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 .\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
@@ -19,11 +20,12 @@
 .\" CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
 .\" TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
 .\" SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" References:
 .\"   /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.1/include/stddef.h
 .\"   glibc-doc
-.TH OFFSETOF 3 2008-07-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH OFFSETOF 3 2014-04-06 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 offsetof \- offset of a structure member
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -36,7 +38,9 @@ offsetof \- offset of a structure member
 The macro
 .BR offsetof ()
 returns the offset of the field
-\fImember\fP from the start of the structure \fItype\fP.
+.I member
+from the start of the structure
+.IR type .
 
 This macro is useful because the sizes of the fields that compose
 a structure can vary across implementations,
@@ -46,16 +50,17 @@ Consequently, an element's offset is not necessarily
 given by the sum of the sizes of the previous elements.
 
 A compiler error will result if
-\fImember\fP is not aligned to a byte boundary
+.I member
+is not aligned to a byte boundary
 (i.e., it is a bit field).
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR offsetof ()
 returns the offset of the given
 .I member
 within the given
 .IR type ,
 in units of bytes.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 On a Linux/i386 system, when compiled using the default
@@ -68,7 +73,6 @@ options, the program below produces the following output:
 offsets: i=0; c=4; d=8 a=16
 sizeof(struct s)=16
 .fi
-.nf
 .SS Program source
 \&
 .nf
@@ -88,13 +92,19 @@ main(void)
 
     /* Output is compiler dependent */
 
-    printf("offsets: i=%ld; c=%ld; d=%ld a=%ld\\n",
-            (long) offsetof(struct s, i),
-            (long) offsetof(struct s, c),
-            (long) offsetof(struct s, d),
-            (long) offsetof(struct s, a));
-    printf("sizeof(struct s)=%ld\\n", (long) sizeof(struct s));
+    printf("offsets: i=%zd; c=%zd; d=%zd a=%zd\\n",
+            offsetof(struct s, i), offsetof(struct s, c),
+            offsetof(struct s, d), offsetof(struct s, a));
+    printf("sizeof(struct s)=%zd\\n", sizeof(struct s));
 
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 .fi
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.