A.1 Introduction A-3 A.2 Assemblers A-10 A.3 Linkers A-18 A.4 Loading A-19 A.5 Memory Usage A-20 A.6 Procedure Call Convention A-22 A.7 Exceptions and Interrupts A-33 A.8 Input and Output A-38 A.9 SPIM A-40 A.10 MIPS R2000 Assembly Language A-45 A.11 Concluding Remarks A-81 A.12 Exercises A-82

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