Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

7.4. 7.4 Unconditional Transfer of Control (JMP)

The jmp (jump) instruction unconditionally transfers control to another point in the program. There are three forms of this instruction: a direct jump, and two indirect jumps. These instructions take one of the following three forms:

jmp label;
   jmp( reg32 );
   jmp( mem32);

For the first (direct) jump above, you normally specify the target address using a statement label (see the previous section for a discussion of statement labels). The statement label is usually on the same line as an executable machine instruction or appears by itself on a line preceding an executable machine instruction. The direct jump instruction is the most common of these three forms. It is completely equivalent to a GOTO statement ...