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authorspiderpig86 <slim679975@gmail.com>2018-06-24 14:00:07 -0400
committerspiderpig86 <slim679975@gmail.com>2018-06-24 14:00:07 -0400
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@@ -13,4 +13,24 @@ The MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) Assembly language
# Comments are denoted with a '#'
# Everything that occurs after a '#' will be ignored by the assembler's lexer.
+
+# Programs typically contain a .data and .text sections
+
+.data # Section where data is stored in memory (allocated in RAM), similar to variables in higher level languages
+
+ # Declarations follow a ( label: .type value(s) ) form of declaration
+ hello_world .asciiz "Hello World\n" # Declare a null terminated string
+ num1: .word 42 # Integers are referred to as words (32 bit value)
+ arr1: .word 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 # Array of words
+ arr2: .byte 'a', 'b' # Array of chars (1 byte each)
+ buffer: .space 60 # Allocates space in the RAM (not cleared to 0)
+
+ # Datatype sizes
+ _byte: .byte 'a' # 1 byte
+ _halfword: .half 53 # 2 bytes
+ _word: .word 3 # 4 bytes
+ _float: .float 3.14 # 4 bytes
+ _double: .double 7.0 # 8 bytes
+
+
``` \ No newline at end of file