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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] offsetof and XtOffsetOf
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Joe Watkins wrote on 05/06/2015 15:42:
> The comment seems to suggest we copied the XtOffset stuff from apache
> source (which copied it from X), verbatim, is that not explanation enough ?

It's not an explanation of *why* it was copied - i.e. why it was needed 
in the first place. It's not the implementation that Levi is 
questioning, but the existence of a custom macro at all.