In article c07797cd@hacknowledge, "MC" <contem00@cam.org> writes:
>How reliable is the offsetof macro when used on a complex class under MI?

The offsetof macro has defined results only for POD-structs or
POD-unions. A POD ("plain old data") is, to oversimplify, something
that would be allowed in C.

Use pointers to members instead of offsetof with C++ classes.
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