What does ORG Assembly Instruction do?

Question

can anyone give me a comprehensive description about ORG directive?
When and why is it used in assembly written applications?

Using Nasm on x86 or AMD64.

Solution 1

ORG is used to set the assembler location counter. This may or may not translate to a load address at link time. It can be used to define absolute addresses, e.g. when defining something like interrupt vectors which may need to be at a fixed address, or it can be used to introduce padding or generate a specific alignment for the following code.

Solution 2

ORG is merely an indication on where to put the next piece of code/data, related to the current segment.

It is of no use to use it for fixed addresses, for the eventual address depends on the segment which is not known at assembly time.

Solution 3

      During the assemble time ORG directive resets the MLC (memory location counter) to the address specified in the ORG directive.

Syntax: ORG note: may be a unsigned absolute value or any symbol or symbol + .

example:- to observe this instruction working you need any assemble listing which uses ORG directive.

location
0000A4 00 89 TAB DC 256AL1(*-TAB)
0001A4 00000194 90 ORG TAB+240
000194 F0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7 91 DC C'1234567'

Here in the above the TAB symbol is assigned to MLC address 0A4. in the next instruction ORG sets the MLC to TAB+240 address location which is x'194' (~ x'A4' + 240 in decimal). basically this set up is setup a table with length 256 and from 240 th location to store some character constants so that I can use it for TR instruction.