The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

7.3 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 the following forms:

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

The first instruction is a direct jump above. For direct jumps you normally specify the target address using a statement label. The label appears either on the same line as an executable machine instruction or by itself on a line preceding an executable machine instruction. The direct jump is completely equivalent to a goto statement in a high-level language.^[105]

Here's an example:

<< statements >> jmp laterInPgm; . . . laterInPgm: << statements >> ...