Segment reference in NASM

I am using NASM now instead of TASM but the syntax is pretty different. I am trying to a usual "Hello World" program but it gives me an error when I try to get the segment of a variable or symbol (although NASM supports that).
Here's the code:

PHP Code:

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bits 32
section.data:
message db "Hello", "$"
section.text:
_start:
mov ax, seg message
mov ds, ax
mov dx, message
mov ah, 9h
int 21h

mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h 


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It gives me this error:

Quote:

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a.asm:6: error: binary output format does not support segment base references

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Line 6 is mov ax, seg message

In Nasm

it should be

Code:

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bits 32
section.data:
message db "Hello", "$"
section.text:
_start:
mov ax, [message]
mov ds, ax
mov dx, message
mov ah, 9h
int 21h

mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h

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basically segment offset are done with a [] on Nasm
i think im still quite new to assembly hope this helps

Peter

Unfortunately, [message] doesn't refer to the segment of "message". It's used to access the actual value of "message" which is "Hello". I need the segment address of "message"...I already got the offset using just message.

Shouldn't it be:

Code:

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[bits 32]

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?