Electronics

MIPS

Task: MIPS supports subroutines using the jump and link instruction, jal, where the program jumps to an address and saves the return address (PC + 4)  in register $ra, ($31).  The stack pointer register, $sp (typically $29), points to the area in memory used for the stack.         The following C code subroutine ‘search’ is compiled into MIPS assembly language  as shown. v[] is an array and 'n' is the size of the array. Determin ...