Why no offsetof for static struct?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 20:01:39 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
> Cannot get the offset of static members of a struct

That's because static members do not have an offset. They are not 
part of the struct in memory, just in name.

> We can clearly get a pointer to the static struct X

There's barely any such thing as a static struct. That's just a 
struct that stands without outside context.... which is almost 
all structs, actually, so the term isn't special.

> since &X.x is effectively the address of X(regardless 
> nomenclature and terminology issues in D trying to hide this).

No, it isn't. Static members are stored in an entirely different 
place than non-static members. They are really just global 
variables in memory with their in-source name being nested 
somewhere else.