util: New macro OBJECT_CONTAINING.

This macro is a variant on CONTAINER_OF that takes an object pointer
instead of a type name as its second argument.  In the following commit
this will simplify many users of CONTAINER_OF.

diff --git a/lib/util.h b/lib/util.h
index 9eca8ec..5147ffc 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/util.h
+++ b/lib/util.h
@@ -82,6 +82,16 @@ extern const char *program_name;
 #define CONTAINER_OF(POINTER, STRUCT, MEMBER)                           \
         ((STRUCT *) (void *) ((char *) (POINTER) - offsetof (STRUCT, MEMBER)))
 
+/* Given POINTER, the address of the given MEMBER within an object of the type
+ * that that OBJECT points to, returns OBJECT as a "void *" pointer.  OBJECT
+ * must be an lvalue.
+ *
+ * This is the same as CONTAINER_OF except that it infers the structure type
+ * from the type of '*OBJECT'. */
+#define OBJECT_CONTAINING(POINTER, OBJECT, MEMBER)                      \
+        ((void *) ((char *) (POINTER)                                   \
+                   - ((char *) &(OBJECT)->MEMBER - (char *) (OBJECT))))
+
 #ifdef  __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif