~/bnn:75> /bin/mips64-elf-objdump -d Hello.o Hello.o: file format elf32-bigmips Disassembly of section .text:
/* main Function */ 0000000000000000 : /*create a stack frame by moving the stack pointer 8 *bytes down and meantime update the sp value */ 0: 27bdfff8 addiu $sp,$sp,-8 /* Save the return address to the current sp position.*/ 4: afbf0000 sw $ra,0($sp) 8: 0c000000 jal 0 /* nop is for the delay slot */ c: 00000000 nop /* Fill the argument a0 with the value 1 */ 10: 24040001 li $a0,1 /* Jump the addFunc */ 14: 0c00000a jal 28 /* NOTE HERE: Why we fill the second argument *behind the addFunc function call? * This is all about the "-O1" compilation optimizaiton. * With mips architecture, the instruciton after jump * will also be fetched into the pipline and get * exectuted. Therefore, we can promise that the * second argument will be filled with the value of * integer 2. */ 18: 24050002 li $a1,2 /*Load the return address from the stack pointer * Note here that the result v0 contains the result of * addFunc function call */ 1c: 8fbf0000 lw $ra,0($sp) /* Return */ 20: 03e00008 jr $ra /* Restore the stack frame */ 24: 27bd0008 addiu $sp,$sp,8
/* addFunc Function */ 0000000000000028 : /* Create a stack frame by allocating 16 bytes or 4 * words size */ 28: 27bdfff0 addiu $sp,$sp,-16 /* Save the return address into the stack with 8 bytes * offset. Please note that compiler does not save the * ra to 0($sp). *Think of why, in contrast of the previous PowerPC * EABI convention */ 2c: afbf0008 sw $ra,8($sp) /* We save the s1 reg. value into the stack * because we will use s1 in this function * Note that the 4,5,6,7($sp) positions will then * be occupied by this 32 bits size register */ 30: afb10004 sw $s1,4($sp) /* Withe same reason, save s0 reg. */ 34: afb00000 sw $s0,0($sp) /* Retrieve the argument 0 into s0 reg. */ 38: 0080802d move $s0,$a0 /* Retrieve the argument 1 into s1 reg. */ 3c: 00a0882d move $s1,$a1 /* Call the subFunc with a0 with 5 */ 40: 0c000019 jal 64 /* In the delay slot, we load the 5 into argument a0 reg *for subFunc call. */ 44: 24040005 li $a0,5 /* s0 = s0+s1; note that s0 and s1 holds the values of * x,y, respectively */ 48: 02118021 addu $s0,$s0,$s1 /* v0 = s0+v0; v0 holds the return results of subFunc *call; And we let v0 hold the final results */ 4c: 02021021 addu $v0,$s0,$v0 /*Retrieve the ra value from stack */ 50: 8fbf0008 lw $ra,8($sp) /*!!!!restore the s1 reg. value */ 54: 8fb10004 lw $s1,4($sp) /*!!!! restore the s0 reg. value */ 58: 8fb00000 lw $s0,0($sp) /* Return back to main func */ 5c: 03e00008 jr $ra /* Update/restore the stack pointer/frame */ 60: 27bd0010 addiu $sp,$sp,16
/* subFunc Function */ 0000000000000064 : /* return back to addFunc function */ 64: 03e00008 jr $ra /* Taking advantage of the mips delay slot, filling the * result reg v0 by simply assigning the v0 as the value *of a0. This is a bug from my c source * codes--"value--". I should write my codes * like "--value", instead. 68: 0080102d move $v0,$a0