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
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.
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