Confuses: when use OFFSET and when LEA?

From: Cicciounico <ciccio.unico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:25:38 GMT

Hi, when I push argoment for CALL I must use:

push OFFSET MyVar
call MyProc

or

lea eax,MyVar
push eax
call MyProc

I don't understand the difference! Thanks
.

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... push OFFSET MyVar ... call MyProc ... LEA is a CPU instruction, but as Wolfgang Kern points out, "OFFSET is ...
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... call MyProc ... at a first glance I'd say the second variant abuses eax;) ...
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