Article ID: 24962
Article Last Modified on 10/17/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 1.25
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 1.27
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 4.0
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 4.0
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.0
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0a
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0b
This article was previously published under Q24962
SUMMARY
While <constant> and [<constant>] are syntactically different (a constant and a constant within brackets), they are semantically the same. For example, the following statement:
MOV ax, [100]
will move the value of 100 into ax, not the value that is at address 100.
Another example is using a constant offset in a segment override:
MOV ax, ds:100 ; This will access the word at offset 100
MOV ax, ds:[100] ; This will do the same thing
Additional query words: 1.25 1.27 3.0x 4.00 5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00b
Keywords: KB24962
