IA-32 Assembly Language Reference Manual

Expressions and Immediate Values

An immediate value is an expression preceded by a dollar sign:


immediate: "$" expr

Immediate values carry the absolute or relocatable attributes of their expression component. Immediate values cannot be used in an expression, and should be considered as another form of address, i.e., the immediate form of address.


immediate: "$" expr "," "$" expr

The first expr is 16 bits of segment. The second expr is 32 bits of offset.