Registers with Addresses

The previous chapters have put addresses into base registers. This was done with code similar to the following:

main:                        #  Load the address of val2 into the base register
        lui   $10,0x1000     #  top half
        ori   $10,$10,0x0008 #  bottom half
        lw    $11,0($10)     #  Load contents of memory at the address

        . . . 

        .data
val0:   .word   0 
val1:   .word   1 
val2:   .word   2           # base register $10 points at "2"
val3:   .word   3 
val4:   .word   4 
val5:   .word   5