SPIM prints only first word in .data

Hey,

I'm playing around with MIPS and I have created a 'test' .data containing two words:



If I then load my MIPS file in SPIM and 'print test' I get:



How can I get it to print out the full contents (both words) of the test data segment?

Thanks for your time.

The integer print function only prints one full-word (32 bit) word at a time; to print two of them in sequence, you would need to use syscall 1 twice, once for each value.

OTOH, if you need to print the value as a double, you would need syscall 3 instead.

You have to keep in mind that the assembler itself has no sense of variable sizes except in the individual instructions or system calls; just because you have defined the two words with a single label does not make them part of a single variable. In assembly language, data is data is data; you can interpret the same word value as an integer, a float, an array of four characters, the high or low half of a double, or a set of 32 packed boolean flags, without regard to what data is actually stored there. The assembler imposes no structure on the data except that which you give it.