Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

4.33. 4.33 Controlling Field Offsets Within a Record

By default, whenever you create a record, HLA automatically assigns the offset zero to the first field of that record. This corresponds to record offsets in a high level language and is the intuitive default. In some instances, however, you may want to assign a different starting offset to the first field of the record. HLA provides a mechanism that lets you set the starting offset of the first field in the record.

The syntax to set the first offset is

name:
     record := startingOffset;
          << Record Field Declarations >>
     endrecord;

Using the syntax above, the first field will have the starting offset specified by the startingOffset int32 constant expression. Because this is an int32 value, the starting ...