haiku/headers/private/shared/BytePointer.h

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/*
* Copyright 2019, Adrien Destugues, pulkomandy@pulkomandy.tk.
* Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
*/
#ifndef _BYTE_POINTER_H
#define _BYTE_POINTER_H
#include <stdlib.h>
// Behaves like a char* pointer, but -> and & return the right pointed type.
// Assumes the offsets passed to + and += maintain the alignment for the type.
template<class T> struct BytePointer {
char* address;
BytePointer(void* base) { address = (char*)base; }
T* operator&() { return reinterpret_cast<T*>(address); }
T* operator->() { return reinterpret_cast<T*>(address); }
void operator+=(size_t offset) { address += offset; }
char* operator+(size_t offset) const { return address + offset; }
};
#endif