sh
Store halfword
Stores the lowest 16 bits of $t1 at the address $t2 plus an offset; the address must be halfword-aligned.
Used in
- syscall in the PlaygroundMIPS assembly
- ChiptuneMIPS assembly
- Sampled soundMIPS assembly
Forms
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Pseudo-instructions
The assembler turns these into one or more real instructions.
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Write to label's address, reached through the %hi already in $t2
Store the low-order 16 bits of $t1 into the effective memory halfword address
Operands
$t1- Any general-purpose register,
$0to$31, using its numeric or named spelling, such as$8or$t0($zerois$0;$rais$31). imm16- A signed 16-bit immediate,
-32768to32767. $t2- A general-purpose register. It may be the same register as
$t1. label- A named address in the program, such as the start of a loop or a variable in
.data. imm- An immediate value: a signed 16-bit value (
-32768to32767), an unsigned 16-bit value (0to65535) or a 32-bit value (-2147483648to4294967295). The assembler chooses a supported encoding for the value and other operands; a pseudoinstruction may expand into several instructions. imm32- A 32-bit immediate,
-2147483648to4294967295. Pseudoinstruction expansion may overwrite$at, losing its previous value.
The upper 16 bits of $t1 are ignored. The address must be halfword-aligned (divisible by 2).
.data
.align 2
data: .half 0
.text
# Write initialized value 0x12345678 with sh; inspect data bytes after the instruction: [0x78, 0x56].
la $t1, data
li $t0, 0x12345678
sh $t0, 0($t1)