flexmember.h

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/* Sizes of structs with flexible array members.

   Copyright 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This file is part of the GNU C Library.

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   Written by Paul Eggert.  */

#include <stddef.h>

/* Nonzero multiple of alignment of TYPE, suitable for FLEXSIZEOF below.
   On older platforms without _Alignof, use a pessimistic bound that is
   safe in practice even if FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER is 1.
   On newer platforms, use _Alignof to get a tighter bound.  */

#if !defined __STDC_VERSION__ || __STDC_VERSION__ < 201112
# define FLEXALIGNOF(type) (sizeof (type) & ~ (sizeof (type) - 1))
#else
# define FLEXALIGNOF(type) _Alignof (type)
#endif

/* Upper bound on the size of a struct of type TYPE with a flexible
   array member named MEMBER that is followed by N bytes of other data.
   This is not simply sizeof (TYPE) + N, since it may require
   alignment on unusually picky C11 platforms, and
   FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER may be 1 on pre-C11 platforms.
   Yield a value less than N if and only if arithmetic overflow occurs.  */

#define FLEXSIZEOF(type, member, n) \
   ((offsetof (type, member) + FLEXALIGNOF (type) - 1 + (n)) \
    & ~ (FLEXALIGNOF (type) - 1))