> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.hex-rays.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.hex-rays.com/9.0sp1/developer-guide/idc/idc-api-reference/alphabetical-list-of-idc-functions/384.md).

# get\_first\_member

```
get offset of the first member of a structure
     id            - structure type ID
returns: -1 if bad structure type ID is passed
         or structure has no members
         otherwise returns offset of the first member.
         NOTE: IDA allows 'holes' between members of a
               structure. It treats these 'holes'
               as unnamed arrays of bytes.
         NOTE: Union members are, in IDA's internals, located
               at subsequent byte offsets: member 0 -> offset 0x0,
               member 1 -> offset 0x1, etc...

long get_first_member(long id);
```


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