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- I grateful to the many students at UW who used SPIM in their courses and
happily found bugs in a professor's code. In particular, the students in
CS536, Spring 1990, painfully found the last few bugs in an
``already-debugged'' simulator. I am grateful for their patience and
persistence. Alan Yuen-wui Siow wrote the X-window interface.
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- For a description of the real machines, see Gerry Kane and Joe Heinrich,
MIPS RISC Architecture, Prentice Hall, 1992.
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- These instructions are real-not pseudo-MIPS instructions. SPIM translates
assembler pseudoinstructions to 1-3 MIPS instructions before storing the
program in memory. Each source instruction appears as a comment on the first
instruction to which it is translated.
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- The MIPS compiler does not use a frame pointer, so this register is used
as callee-saved register $s8.