# hello.asm­­ A "Hello World" program. 
# Registers used: 
# $v0 ­ syscall parameter and return value. 
# $a0 ­ syscall parameter­­ the string to print. 
.text
.globl __start
__start: 

	la $a0, hello_msg 	# load the addr of hello_msg into $a0. 
	li $v0, 4 		# 4 is the print_string syscall. 
	syscall 		# do the syscall. 
	li $v0, 10 		# 10 is the exit syscall. 
	syscall 		# do the syscall. 
# Data for the program: 
.data 
	hello_msg: .asciiz "Hello World\n" 
# end hello.asm

# .data
#	hello_msg: .ascii "hello"
#		   .ascii " "
#		   .ascii "World"
#		   .ascii "\n"
#		   .byte 0
#  or else
#	 hello_msg:	.byte 0x48  (H)
#			.byte 0x65  (e)
# 	etc.
#
#			.byte 0x0   (null)
#