Programming Forums - Dereference Value on the Stack

Howdy all,
I'm kind of new to assembly, and I'm using NASM 2.00. I've learned that you can dereference a value from an address stored in a register, or in memory, by enclosing the memory address in brackets, like this:

mov eax, [memory_location]

As far as I can tell, this is similar to using * to dereference a pointer in C.

I can't figure out how to do the same for an address pushed on the stack, from inside a procedure.

Example:

        push memory_location

        call my_procedure

        

my_procedure:

        push ebp

        mov ebp, esp

        

        mov eax, [ebp + 8]

The last instruction will move the address stored at [ebp + 8] into the eax register. What I'd like to do is dereference the value stored at [ebp + 8], and store that in eax.

Can that be done in one instruction? Or do I have to do something like this:

        mov eax, [ebp + 8]

        mov edx, [eax]