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---
language: "MIPS"
filename: MIPS.mips
contributors:
- ["Stanley Lim", "https://github.com/Spiderpig86"]
---
The MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) Assembly language is designed to work with the MIPS microprocessor paradigm designed by J. L. Hennessy in 1981. These RISC processors are used in embedded systems such as gateways and routers.
[Read More](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture)
```assembly
# 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
```
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