CHAPTER 24 ― Branch and Comparison Pseudoinstructions

The MIPS hardware has several instructions for branching and looping. These fundamental instructions are used to create many pseudoinstructions that give the programmer added flexibility.

Chapter Topics:

• Branch instructions
• Immediate operands in branch instructions
• Set instructions
• Indexed Addressing
• Byte arrays
• Integer arrays

Note: for the example programs in this chapter, set the SPIM simulator so that pseudoinstructions are ON, delayed branches are OFF, and delayed loading is OFF.