What is your favorite C programming trick? (2009)
A friend of mine's showed me this in a code he used for programming an educational operating system. If you have a pointer to a member of a struct, with the macro container_of you can retrieve a pointer to the enclosing struct.<p><pre><code>  /* Return the offset of 'member' relative to the beginning of a struct type */
  #define offsetof(type, member)  ((size_t) (&((type*)0)->member))
  
  #define container_of(ptr, type, member) \
   ((type *)((char *)(ptr) - offsetof(type, member)))</code></pre>