Andrew Taylor

can't write tags to files with ORF and other extensions

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FYI files with ORF (and RAW and dmg I think) extensions aren't recognized as image files but, unless I missing something, otherwise the functionality is actually present to write tags...

branches to label outside > 16-bit offset range not detected

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```bash $ (printf 'main:b end\n';yes nop|sed 32767q;printf 'end:jr $ra') >a.s $ 1521 mipsy a.s error: segmentation fault this happened because you tried to execute the address `0x003e0000`, which is not...

--spim-compatibility flag

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spim supports some features which are not necessary and perhaps not even desirable in an intro assembler class. mipsy might support them with a --spim-compatibility flag For example, spim converts...

Students regularly confuse j & jr instructions The "tip" could point to the alternate instruction. Spim silent converts - which probably is undesirably for students learning assembler