From 78dbaecb3f9fa3e3aa7a15e038130ee98beb03dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Schmenk <dschmenk@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:07:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add Structure Declaration

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 doc/User Manual.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/User Manual.md b/doc/User Manual.md
index 86079f6..4451d90 100644
--- a/doc/User Manual.md	
+++ b/doc/User Manual.md	
@@ -87,6 +87,23 @@ const bufflen = 2048
 
 These constants can be used in expressions just like a variable name.
 
+#### Structure Declarations
+There is a shortcut for defining constant offsets into structures:
+```
+struc s_entry
+  word id
+  byte[32] name
+  word next_entry
+end
+```
+is equivalent to:
+```
+const s_entry    = 36 // size of the structure
+const id         = 0  // offset to id element
+const name       = 2  // offset to name element
+const next_entry = 34 // offset to next_entry element
+```
+
 #### Predefined Functions
 Sometimes a function needs to be referenced before it is defined. The `predef` declaration reserves the label for a function. The `import` declaration block also uses the `predef` declaration to reserve an external function. Outside of an `import` block, `predef` will only predefine a function that must be declared later in the source file, otherwise an error will occur.