Memory Dump

Here is the code fragment (again). Notice how the address is put into the link field of each node by using the symbolic address of the node's successor.

          .data
elmnt01:  .word  1
          .word  elmnt02

elmnt02:  .word  2
          .word  elmnt03

elmnt03:  .word  3
          .word  elmnt04

elmnt04:  .word  5
          .word  elmnt05

elmnt05:  .word  7
          .word  0

And here is how it is assembled by SPIM:

Each node consists of two words of data: the integer followed by the address of the next node. In this memory dump the nodes follow each other in order.