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Addressing Modes (cont)

Addressing modes in MIPS

Format  Address computation
(register)   address = contents of register
k   address = k
k(register)   address = k + contents of register
symbol   address = &symbol = address of symbol
symbol ± k   address = &symbol ± k
symbol ± k(register)   address = &symbol ± (k + contents of register)

where k is a literal constant value (e.g. 4 or 0x10000000)