.text  
main:
	# Program does nothing!
	# But is has global variables

        li      $v0, 0		# return 0
        jr      $ra

.word 42        # initialises a 4 byte value to 42
.half  7        # initialises a 2 byte value to 7
.byte 'a'       # initialises a 1 byte value to ‘a’

#We can also just ask for some memory without initialising it (typically we prefer to initialise it)
.space 8        # sets aside 8 uninitialised bytes