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C: Suppose I have a structure having fields name, age, salary and have passed address of age to a function fun( ). How I can access the other member of the structure using the address of age?


Suppose I have a structure having the fields name, age, salary and have passed the address of age to a function fun( ). How I can access the other member of the structure using the address of age?


struct emp 
{ 
   char name[20] ; 
   int age ; 
   float salary ; 
} ; 
  
main( ) 
{ 
   struct emp e ; 
   printf ( "\nEnter name: " ) ; 
   scanf ( "%s", e.name ) ; 
   printf ( "\nEnter age: " ) ; 
   scanf ( "%d", &e.age ) ; 
   printf ( "\nEnter salary: " ) ; 
   scanf ( "%f", &e.salary ) ; 
   fun ( &e.age ) ; 
} 
  
fun ( int *p ) 
{ 
   struct emp *q ; 
   int offset ; 
   offset = ( char * ) ( & ( ( struct emp * ) 0 ) -> age ) - ( char * ) ( ( struct emp* ) 0 ) ; 
   q = ( struct emp * ) ( ( char * ) p - offset ) ; 
   printf ( "\nname: %s", q -> name ) ; 
   printf ( "\nage: %d", q -> age ) ; 
   printf ( "\nsalary: %f", q -> salary ) ; 
}

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