First of all, I have already checked related questions to this one, yet I am still not able to overcome the problem I have with this program.
What I am trying to do is, basically, take a byte[] input and duplicate it to another byte[], and print the duplicate array. My code is as above:
.data
hello: .asciiz "hello"
inp: .byte 5
dup: .byte 5
.text
main:
la $a0, inp #get input
li $v0, 8
syscall
la $s0, dup #load arrays on s0 and s1
la $s1, inp
li $t0, 0 #instantiate offsets as 0
li $t2, 0
Load:
lb $t1, 0($s1) #load first byte
sub $t1, $t1, 48 #test if it is <0
bltz, $t1, exit #if so go to exit
add $t1, $t1, 48
sb $t1, 0($s0) #else save the byte
add $s1, $s1, 1 #increment offsets
add $s0, $s0, 1
j Load
la $a0, hello
li $v0, 4
syscall
exit:
li $t1, 0
add $s0, $s0, 1
sb $t1, 0($s0) #add null to the end of dup
la $a0, dup
li $v0, 4
syscall
jr $ra
I am new to MIPS and, I am not able to recognize what the problem is.
By the way, I am passing 123 as an input and I am getting countless of 1s as output, which tells me that I am stuck in the loop and never getting any further in $s1 (inp).
There are a couple of problems with your code:
First, .byte 5 doesn't reserve space for 5 bytes, it declares a single byte with the value 5. If you want 5 bytes you should say .space 5 (the bytes will be initialized with the value 0 IIRC).
Second, syscall 8 takes one more argument; $a1 = maximum number of characters to read, which you haven't specified. If you have room for 5 bytes in your buffer you should set $a1 to 5. Note that "maximum number of characters to read" actually means "maximum number of characters to read including the terminating null-character".