1/* Sizes of structs with flexible array members.
2
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4
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20
21
22#include <stddef.h>
23
24/* Nonzero multiple of alignment of TYPE, suitable for FLEXSIZEOF below.
25 On older platforms without _Alignof, use a pessimistic bound that is
26 safe in practice even if FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER is 1.
27 On newer platforms, use _Alignof to get a tighter bound. */
28
29#if !defined __STDC_VERSION__ || __STDC_VERSION__ < 201112
30# define FLEXALIGNOF(type) (sizeof (type) & ~ (sizeof (type) - 1))
31#else
32# define FLEXALIGNOF(type) _Alignof (type)
33#endif
34
35/* Yield a properly aligned upper bound on the size of a struct of
36 type TYPE with a flexible array member named MEMBER that is
37 followed by N bytes of other data. The result is suitable as an
38 argument to malloc. For example:
39
40 struct s { int n; char d[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]; };
41 struct s *p = malloc (FLEXSIZEOF (struct s, d, n * sizeof (char)));
42
43 FLEXSIZEOF (TYPE, MEMBER, N) is not simply (sizeof (TYPE) + N),
44 since FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER may be 1 on pre-C11 platforms. Nor is
45 it simply (offsetof (TYPE, MEMBER) + N), as that might yield a size
46 that causes malloc to yield a pointer that is not properly aligned
47 for TYPE; for example, if sizeof (int) == alignof (int) == 4,
48 malloc (offsetof (struct s, d) + 3 * sizeof (char)) is equivalent
49 to malloc (7) and might yield a pointer that is not a multiple of 4
50 (which means the pointer is not properly aligned for struct s),
51 whereas malloc (FLEXSIZEOF (struct s, d, 3 * sizeof (char))) is
52 equivalent to malloc (8) and must yield a pointer that is a
53 multiple of 4.
54
55 Yield a value less than N if and only if arithmetic overflow occurs. */
56
57#define FLEXSIZEOF(type, member, n) \
58 ((offsetof (type, member) + FLEXALIGNOF (type) - 1 + (n)) \
59 & ~ (FLEXALIGNOF (type) - 1))
60

source code of glibc/posix/flexmember.h