I would like to do something like this:

mov al, offset [bx]

while bx contains an address of a name of another variable. Is there a way to do so in assembly 8086?

CodePudding user response：

There are no variable names anymore at runtime, that is after assembling. You need to put the address of an variable into bx, not the name. If the address of an variable is in bx, then the instruction you wrote needs to be written without the offset keyword and load the contents of that variable pointed to by bx into al.