I think that you are misinterpreting that statement. The .ORG directive is indeed somewhat of a hint to the assembler (or rather, obviously, a directive) tellin

I think that you are misinterpreting that statement. The .ORG directive is indeed somewhat of a hint to the assembler (or rather, obviously, a directive) telling it which memory location it should assemble the code for. It is a hint in the sense that it doesn't necessarily reflect the actual location of the code at run-time, because it is separate from linking.