tcc_container_of: Generate container_of helper for struct member

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Generate container_of helper for struct member

Description

Creates a function that recovers the parent struct pointer from a pointer to one of its members. This is the classic Linux kernel container_of macro made accessible from R.

Usage

tcc_container_of(ffi, struct_name, member_name)

Arguments

ffi	A tcc_ffi object
struct_name	Struct name
member_name	Member field name to compute offset from

Value

Updated tcc_ffi object

Examples

## Not run: 
ffi <- tcc_ffi() |>
  tcc_struct("student", list(id = "i32", marks = "i32")) |>
  tcc_container_of("student", "marks") # Creates struct_student_from_marks()

## End(Not run)

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