Hi all,
I need to get the exact byte offset of a member variable inside a
class in order to map a member variable pointer type to a concrete
member variable instance. This worked fine until I ported my code to
GCC 4.0, which is much stricter regarding type casts.
Unfortunately I cannot use the offsetof() macro, since I do not have
enough information to do so.
The only information I have is:
- The member variable type (in template parameter T, for example
int)
- A member variable pointer (m_memberVariablePtr, for example
int MyClass::*)
- The class type (in template parameter C, for example MyClass)
- A concrete instance of type C (obj)
I want to get
- The address of obj's concrete member variable (represented by
m_memberVariablePtr)
Here is how I calculated this address in GCC 3.0:
const C* addressOfObject = static_cast<const C*>(&obj);
T* result = (T*)((std::size_t)addressOfObject + (size_t)
m_memberVariablePtr);
However, this snippet does not compile in GCC 4.0, since I am not
allowed to cast a member variable pointer to a size_t type. Is there
any elegant possibility to get the address correctly?
Thanks in advance,
Thomas