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Most of the time you won't be jumping to a specific address. You can place a label before any instruction, and a jump to that label is the same as a jump to the address of that instruction.
 
<lang mips>j GoHere ;the assembler will convert this label to a constant memory address for us.
<lang mips>j GoHere
nop ;branch delay slot. This instruction would get executed DURING the jump. We'll make that instruction a NOP, which does nothing.
;But since NOP intentionally does nothing, it's not a problem.
 
GoHere:
addiu $t0,1 ;this instruction is the first one executed after jumping.</lang>
 
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