MIPS Directives

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Index

1. Main Directives
2. .data directives

Related

1. Architettura dei calcolatori (class)
2. MIPS Assembly MOC

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Main Directives

Syntax	Meaning
.main	It’s used to mark a file as the main file (the one that is run first)
.data	Introduces the data (i.e. global variables) section of the program, this variables are stored in the computer memory (RAM ??)
.text	Introduces the text (i.e. code) section of the program.

.data directives

Directives which can only be used in a .data section of the program file:

Syntax	Meaning	Example
.asciiz <characters>	characters will be stored in memory as a zero byte terminated string constant.	.asciiz “Hello world”
.space <number>	number of bytes is reserved in memory.	.space 400
.word <number>	The 32-bit number number is stored in memory.	.word 1234

Example

.data
  string: .asciiz "ciao mondo"
  number: .word 1  // number = 0000000000000000000000000000001
  

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