created: 20231123184226189
creator: Octt
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modifier: Octt
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title: MIPS

<<^wikipediaframe "MIPS architecture">>

* [[MIPS Assembly (Wikibooks)|https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MIPS_Assembly]]
* [[MIPS Reference Sheet|https://uweb.engr.arizona.edu/~ece369/Resources/spim/MIPSReference.pdf]]
* [[Jarrett Billingsley's Computer Organization & Assembly Materials|https://jarrettbillingsley.github.io/teaching/classes/cs0447/materials]] including MIPS pages
* [[Abdelrahman Nasr's MIPS cheatsheet|https://t1m3m.github.io/posts/MIPS-cheatsheet/]]

* [[Mipsdis: MIPS disassembler in the browser|https://blog.loadzero.com/blog/announcing-mipsdis/]] --- <<[# Demo"https://blog.loadzero.com/demo/mipsdis/demo.html">> <<[# Git"https://github.com/loadzero/mipsdis">>

* [[represent a struct in mips32|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60112137/represent-a-struct-in-mips32]] --- after analyzing the C struct declaration to understand how many bytes it requires, //a good idea here would be to allocate some `.space`//, e.g. `theStruct:
  .align 2  # MIPS needs word alignment
  .space 16 # Size of struct`, then use with `la $register,theStruct`
* [[MIPS - Call C function in Assembly code|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36980971/mips-call-c-function-in-assembly-code]] --- write values to stack if necessary, declare `.extern CFunctionName` in the ASM, use `jal CFunctionName` to call
* [[MIPS function call with more than four arguments|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298838/mips-function-call-with-more-than-four-arguments]] --- first allocate stack memory (subtract 4*numberOfArguments to `sp`), then load the first 4 arguments normally in `$a#` registers, and store the others in `4*argumentNumber($sp)`