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<center><font size="2">The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6<br>
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001<br>
Copyright &copy; 2001 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.</font></center>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_01"></a>NAME</h4>
<blockquote>stddef.h - standard type definitions</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_13_47_02"></a>SYNOPSIS</h4>
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<p><tt>#include &lt;stddef.h&gt;</tt></p>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_03"></a>DESCRIPTION</h4>
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<div class="box"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO&nbsp;C standard. Any conflict between the
requirements described here and the ISO&nbsp;C standard is unintentional. This volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 defers to
the ISO&nbsp;C standard. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></div>
<p>The <i>&lt;stddef.h&gt;</i> header shall define the following macros:</p>
<dl compact>
<dt>NULL</dt>
<dd>Null pointer constant.</dd>
<dt>offsetof(<i>type</i>, <i>member-designator</i>)</dt>
<dd><br>
Integer constant expression of type <b>size_t</b>, the value of which is the offset in bytes to the structure member
(<i>member-designator</i>), from the beginning of its structure (<i>type</i>).</dd>
</dl>
<p>The <i>&lt;stddef.h&gt;</i> header shall define the following types:</p>
<dl compact>
<dt><b>ptrdiff_t</b></dt>
<dd>Signed integer type of the result of subtracting two pointers.</dd>
<dt><b>wchar_t</b></dt>
<dd>Integer type whose range of values can represent distinct wide-character codes for all members of the largest character set
specified among the locales supported by the compilation environment: the null character has the code value 0 and each member of
the portable character set has a code value equal to its value when used as the lone character in an integer character
constant.</dd>
<dt><b>size_t</b></dt>
<dd>Unsigned integer type of the result of the <i>sizeof</i> operator.</dd>
</dl>
<p>The implementation shall support one or more programming environments in which the widths of <b>ptrdiff_t</b>, <b>size_t</b>,
and <b>wchar_t</b> are no greater than the width of type <b>long</b>. The names of these programming environments can be obtained
using the <a href="../functions/confstr.html"><i>confstr</i>()</a> function or the <a href=
"../utilities/getconf.html"><i>getconf</i></a> utility.</p>
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<div class="box"><em>The following sections are informative.</em></div>
<h4><a name="tag_13_47_04"></a>APPLICATION USAGE</h4>
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<p>None.</p>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_05"></a>RATIONALE</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_06"></a>FUTURE DIRECTIONS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_07"></a>SEE ALSO</h4>
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<p><a href="wchar.h.html"><i>&lt;wchar.h&gt;</i></a> , <a href="sys/types.h.html"><i>&lt;sys/types.h&gt;</i></a> , the System
Interfaces volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, <a href="../functions/confstr.html"><i>confstr</i>()</a>, the Shell and
Utilities volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, <a href="../utilities/getconf.html"><i>getconf</i></a></p>
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<h4><a name="tag_13_47_08"></a>CHANGE HISTORY</h4>
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<p>First released in Issue 4. Derived from the ANSI&nbsp;C standard.</p>
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