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Absolute

The address of the data operand is written in the instruction.

• MOVE.L D0,$1234 - the contents of data register D0 is copied to memory location $1234 (locations $1234, $1235, $1236 and $1237, are used).

• MOVE.W $1234,D0 - the word beginning at memory location $1234 is copied into the lower order word of data register D0 (the high order word of D0 is not changed).

The 68000 supports two versions of absolute addressing: absolute short, and absolute long.

To create position independent code, absolute addressing should be avoided (unless referring to fixed addresses such as i/o).

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