When operand is a data in memory, the address of that data (also any numerical expression, but it may contain registers) should be enclosed in square brackets or preceded by ptr operator. For example instruction mov eax,3 will put the immediate value 3 into the EAX register, instruction mov eax,[7] will put the 32-bit value from the address 7 into EAX and the instruction mov byte [7],3 will put the immediate value 3 into the byte at address 7, it can also be written as mov byte ptr 7,3. To specify which segment register should be used for addressing, segment register name followed by a colon should be put just before the address value (inside the square brackets or after the ptr operator).

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