Confusing brackets in MASM32
问题 I am trying to get to grips with MASM32 and am confused by the following: I thought that brackets were used for indirection so if I have the a pre-defined variable .data item dd 42 then mov ebx, item would put the contents of 'item', i.e. the number 42, into ebx and mov ebx, [item] would put the address of 'item', i.e. where the 42 is stored, into ebx. But the following code in a console app: mov ebx, item invoke dwtoa, ebx, ADDR valuestr invoke StdOut, ADDR valuestr mov ebx, [item] invoke