Immediate addressing

Immediate addressing in the 6502 microprocessor is used to reference a numerical value, not a memory address. Regardless, it is still called "addressing". By using immediate addressing you can load a value directly into a general purpose register.

Example using LDA

LDA #$42

This loads the number 42 into the accumulator. Note that for immediate addressing you have to prefix the hexadecimal number with the # sign.

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