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In Assembly language (LC 2200 MIPS), Coding Confusion

If I were to increment $a0 from 0 to 10 using a loop. Then, increment memory address 0 from 0 to 10 using a loop...

Would the code roughly look like

Loop:
addi $a0,1
Solution

  • this is how you implement loops in MIPS Assembly:

    .globl main

main:
# start of the loop
loop:
    bgt $a0,10,exit # checks if $a0 is greater than 10 loop ending condition
    addi $a0,$a0,1  # adds one to the $a0 the loop variable
    j loop          # jumps to continue loop

exit:
    li $v0,10       # sets the value of $v0 to 10 to terminate the program
    syscall         # terminate

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