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To correct this example, the struct big pointer is cast as a char *. This causes skip to be scaled by a factor of 1.
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struct big {
unsigned long long ull_1; /* typically 8 bytes */
unsigned long long ull_2; /* typically 8 bytes */
unsigned long long ull_3; /* typically 8 bytes */
int si_4; /* typically 4 bytes */
int si_5; /* typically 4 bytes */
};
/* ... */
size_t skip = offsetof(struct big, ull_2);
struct big *s = (struct big *)malloc(sizeof(struct big));
if (!s) {
/* Handle malloc() error */
}
memset((char *)s + skip, 0, sizeof(struct big) - skip);
/* ... */
free(s);
s = NULL;
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