6.9. More Pseudo Notation

We remind that [a] means contents of memory at the address a, [eax] means contents of memory at the address stored in EAX register (here EAX is a pointer).

We also introduce additional notation to employ in this and subsequent chapters: *[pa] means contents at the address stored at the address pa and is called dereferencing a pointer whose address is pa. The corresponding C code is similar: