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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. |
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. |
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<lang mips>j GoHere ;the assembler will convert this label to a constant memory address for us. |
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<lang mips>j GoHere |
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nop ;branch delay slot. This instruction would get executed DURING the jump. |
nop ;branch delay slot. This instruction would get executed DURING the jump. |
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;But since NOP intentionally does nothing, it's not a problem. |
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GoHere |
GoHere: |
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addiu $t0,1 ;this instruction is the first one executed after jumping.</lang> |
addiu $t0,1 ;this instruction is the first one executed after jumping.</lang> |
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