From 48783b71fb127f46860ed5bed605c85eda1303a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rolf Eike Beer Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:58:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] CheckTypeSize: show in documentation how to get struct member size (#10579) --- Modules/CheckTypeSize.cmake | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Modules/CheckTypeSize.cmake b/Modules/CheckTypeSize.cmake index 1b9dc9fbb..7285b8a6d 100644 --- a/Modules/CheckTypeSize.cmake +++ b/Modules/CheckTypeSize.cmake @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ # size check automatically includes the available headers, thus # supporting checks of types defined in the headers. # +# Despite the name of the macro you may use it to check the size of +# more complex expressions, too. To check e.g. for the size of a struct +# member you can do something like this: +# check_type_size("((struct something*)0)->member" SIZEOF_MEMBER) +# # The following variables may be set before calling this macro to # modify the way the check is run: #