Why is Visual C++ 2010 using this Assembly syntax for memory addressing?

Question

I converted the following C++ code into Assembly using Visual C++ 2010:

int main()
{
    int i;
    i = 1234;

    return 0;
}

I received t

Answer 1

Microsoft's assembler treats something like a[b] about the same way C or C++ would so a[b] and b[a] are pretty much equivalent. Both indicate addition and some optional scaling followed by dereferencing, but don't place many requirements about which part is "address" and which part is "index".