Accurate. They don't have to be inside the data segment - they can simply be part of the actual assembly instructions. But more or less, it means the constant i

Accurate. They don't have to be inside the data segment - they can simply be part of the actual assembly instructions. But more or less, it means the constant is "being written directly into the program". If "program" refers to the object code unambiguously, I don't think this expression is problematic per se.