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47 .TH STDDEF.H 3HEAD "Jan 14, 2015"
49 stddef.h, stddef \- standard type definitions
53 #include <\fBstddef.h\fR>
58 The <\fBstddef.h\fR> header defines the following macros:
66 Null pointer constant.
72 \fB\fBoffsetof(type, member-designator)\fR\fR
76 Integer constant expression of type \fBsize_t\fR, the value of which is the
77 offset in bytes to the structure member (\fBmember-designator\fR), from the
78 beginning of its structure (\fBtype\fR).
83 The <\fBstddef.h\fR> header defines the following types:
90 Signed integer type of the result of subtracting two pointers.
99 Integer type whose range of values can represent distinct wide-character codes
100 for all members of the largest character set specified among the locales
101 supported by the compilation environment: the null character has the code value
102 0 and each member of the portable character set has a code value equal to its
103 value when used as the lone character in an integer character constant.
112 Unsigned integer type of the result of the \fBsizeof\fR operator.
121 A type that represents the maximum alignment supported by the platform.
122 The type may or may not be an integer type, it may or may not be signed,
123 no assumptions should be made, other than that it has the maximum
124 fundamental alignment of the platform.
129 The implementation supports one or more programming environments in which the
130 widths of \fBptrdiff_t\fR, \fBsize_t\fR, and \fBwchar_t\fR are no greater than
131 the width of type \fBlong\fR. The names of these programming environments can
132 be obtained using the \fBconfstr\fR(3C) function or the \fBgetconf\fR(1)
136 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
144 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
146 Interface Stability Standard
151 \fBgetconf\fR(1), \fBconfstr\fR(3C), \fBtypes.h\fR(3HEAD),
152 \fBwchar.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)