Execute lb MIPS instruction by hand

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I am working on executing MIPS instructions by hand and I am not really understanding how it works. In the example given below, the contents in $t0 changes from 0x00001117 to 0x00000080. I do not understand why though. Any help would be great.

lbu $t0, 5($s0)
lbu (i-type, load byte unsigned) 
Registers before                Instruction Registers after
Register       Contents            Register       Contents
$t0         0x00001117          $t0         0x00000080
$s0         0x10010010          $s0         0x10010010
$pc         0x0040008c          $pc         0x00400090


Memory before                   Memory After
Location    Contents            Location    Contents
0x10010010  0x00400004          0x10010010  0x00400004
0x10010014  0x00408008          0x10010014  0x00408008
0x10010018  0x0040001c          0x10010018  0x0040001c
mips
asked on Stack Overflow Sep 17, 2018 by R. Lee • edited Sep 17, 2018 by R. Lee

1 Answer

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This assumes a little-endian memory layout.

$s0 has the value 0x10010010, so 5($s0) refers to the value at address 0x10010015.

Your memory contents when viewed as bytes looks like this:

            +0 +1 +2 +3
-----------------------
0x10010010: 04 00 40 00
0x10010014: 08 80 40 00
...

As you can see, the byte at 0x10010015 is 0x80. And since lbu zero-extends the loaded value to 32 bits, the upper 24 bits of $t0 are cleared.

answered on Stack Overflow Sep 17, 2018 by Michael

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