CHAPTER 24 ― Branch and Comparison Pseudoinstructions

The MIPS hardware has several instructions for branching and looping. These fundamental instructions are used in to create many pseudoinstructions that give 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, assume that the SPIM simulator has been set so that pseduoinstrictions are ON, delayed branches are OFF, and delayed loading is OFF.