created: 08/05/01; revised 11/09/01
This chapter discusses additional pseudoinstuctions. When you write a program using pseudoinstructions it looks to you as if the computer has a rich set of convenient machine instructions. In fact, these convenient instructions are each implemented by using basic instructions. The extended assembler replaces each pseudoinstruction with one or more basic instructions. The basic instructions are then translated into machine code.
not pseudoinstruction.abs pseudoinstruction.addu pseudoinstruction.subu pseudoinstruction.negu pseudoinstruction.mul pseudoinstruction.div pseudoinstruction.divu pseudoinstruction.remu pseudoinstruction.rol rotate left pseudoinstruction.ror rotate right pseudoinstruction.