Appendix B MIPS Instructions

This appendix summarizes MIPS instructions used in this book. Tables B.1B.3 define the opcode and funct fields for each instruction, along with a short description of what the instruction does. The following notations are used:

[reg]: contents of the register
imm: 16-bit immediate field of the I-type instruction
addr: 26-bit address field of the J-type instruction
SignImm: sign-extended immediate
= {{16{imm[15]}}, ...

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