PTR              Type override                                       Operator

addrtype PTR expression ; Ideal mode
or addrtype expression ; (PTR operator is optional)

Converts expression to the specified address subtype.


expr1 PTR expr2 ; MASM mode

Converts expr2 to the type determined by expr1 where expr1 is one of:
UNKNOWN (0), BYTE (1), WORD (2), DWORD (4), PWORD (6), QWORD (8),
TBYTE (10d), NEAR (0FFFFh), FAR (0FFFEh) (all others = UNKNOWN).