MIPS Assembly Language Programmer’s Guide

This book describes the assembly language supported by the RISCompiler system, its syntax rules, and how to write assembly programs. For information on assembling and linking an assembly language program, see the MIPS RISCompiler and C Programmer’s Guide. The assembler converts assembly language statements into machine code. In most assembly languages, each instruction corresponds to a single machine instruction; however, some assembly language instructions can generate several machine instructions. This feature results in assembly programs that can run without modification on future machines, which might have different machine instructions. See Appendix B for more information about assembler instructions that generate multiple machine instructions.