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From: Justin Wojdacki <justin.wojdacki@analog.com>
To: Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan <balakris_ananth@email.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Code error - why?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:29:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0E0E5B.C41AC2DF@analog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020617094851.30730.qmail@email.com

Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> 
> I wrote a SAMPLE CODE - Hello.S to work for a cross-assembler mips-linux-as - but this is giving me an error message:
>    ".data
>          quest: .asciiz "Hello World!"
>     .text
>     _start:
>          la $a0, quest
>          li $v0, 4
>          syscall   "
> 
> The error messages are:
>   " Hello.S line 5: illegal operands 'la'
>     Hello.S line 6: illegal operands 'li'"
> 
> Can anyone help? What is wrong?
> 

$a0 and $v0 are what's probably giving you grief. Are you relying on
the assembler to know these symbols or are you including a file that
defines them. 

Just to be sure, try replacing $a0 with $4 and $v0 with $2 and see if
the code builds.

-- 
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Justin Wojdacki        
justin.wojdacki@analog.com         (408) 350-5032
Communications Processors Group -- Analog Devices

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-17 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-17  9:48 Code error - why? Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan
2002-06-17 16:01 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2002-06-17 16:01   ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2002-06-18 16:14   ` Justin Carlson
2002-06-19 16:18     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-17 16:29 ` Justin Wojdacki [this message]
2002-06-17 16:55 ` Thiemo Seufer

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