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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 2/7] rust: add offset_of! macro
On 5/17/23 17:31, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
>
> This macro is used to compute the offset of a field in a struct.
>
> This commit enables two unstable features that are necessary for using
> the macro in a constant. However, this is not a problem as the macro
> will become available from the Rust standard library soon [1]. The
> unstable features can be disabled again once that happens.
>
> The macro in this patch does not support sub-fields. That is, you cannot
> write `offset_of!(MyStruct, field.sub_field)` to get the offset of
> `sub_field` with `field`'s type being a struct with a field called
> `sub_field`. This is because `field` might be a `Box<SubStruct>`, which
> means that you would be trying to compute the offset to something in an
> entirely different allocation. There's no easy way to fix the current
> macro to support subfields, but the version being added to the standard
> library should support it, so the limitation is temporary and not a big
> deal.
>
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106655 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
> Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> ---
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>

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