mips中的li_MIPS中的函数（过程）

I'm new in MIPS language and I don't understand how the functions (procedures) in the MIPS assembly language work. Here are but I will specify my problem :

What does:

jal

jr

$ra

mean in mips language and the important thing

How can we use them when we want to create a function or (procedure)?

解决方案

Firstly, you might want to check this quick MIPS reference. It really helped me.

Secondly, to explain jal, jr and $ra. What jal does is jump to the label label and store the program counter (think of it as the address of the current instruction) in the $ra register. Now, when you want to return from label to where you initially were, you just use jr $ra.

Here's an example:

.text

main:

li $t0, 1

jal procedure # call procedure

li $v0, 10

syscall

procedure:

li $t0, 3

jr $ra # return

You will notice when running this in a SPIM emulator that the value left in $t0 is 3, the one loaded in the so-called procedure.

Hope this helps.