Move address to register by using the indexed addressing mode

Question

Is it possible to calculate an address by using the indexed addressing mode syntax and store it into a register? Something like the following (wrong) expression (in AT&T assembly syntax):

movl $dataarray(,%edi,8), %eax

I know that the indexed addressing mode can be used to move data:

movl dataarray(,%edi,8), %eax

However, in this case, what I want to do is to store the address of the element of dataarray indexed by %edi into the %eax register.

Answer 1

As already suggested in this comment, the lea instruction can be used for that purpose:

leal dataarray(,%edi,8), %eax

This way, the address (and not the value at that address, as it occurs with the mov instruction) is computed and stored into the eax register.