computing userland pointers

David P. Reese, Jr. daver at gomerbud.com
Thu Sep 11 19:46:49 PDT 2003


In separating recvmsg() I want to be able to copyout to a single member of
a struct msghdr that lives in userland.  I'm currently using code like

   ucontrollenp = (socklen_t *)((caddr_t)uap->msg + offsetof(struct msghdr,
       msg_controllen));

I'm curious if anything like this already exists as a macro.  If it such
a macro doesn't exist, would there be any argument against adding one?

#define UADDRESS(cast, type, addr, member) \
	(cast)((caddr_t)addr + offsetof(type, member))

I think it could be placed in sys/systm.h.

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   David P. Reese, Jr.                                     daver at xxxxxxxxxxxx
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