Re: Is it catachrestial as 'Effective Addresses' in NASM documentation?

In both cases, whatever is between the square brackets is an effective address.
I agree, and that is what I meant.

mov evaluates the expression and then reads the contents from the resulting address
what's this:
mov eax, mem; so, in our context, mem is an effective address, but
[mem] isn't, [mem] is the content of the effective address(mem).

Now back to my question, the '3.3 Effective Addresses' section of Nasm
document need to
detail that what there so-called 'Effective Address' is the content of
'effective address' of LEA instruction.

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