RosettaCodeData/Task/Reverse-a-string/MIPS-Assembly/reverse-a-string.mips

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# First, it gets the length of the original string
# Then, it allocates memory from the copy
# Then it copies the pointer to the original string, and adds the strlen
# subtract 1, then that new pointer is at the last char.
# while(strlen)
# copy char
# decrement strlen
# decrement source pointer
# increment target pointer
.text
strcpy:
addi $sp, $sp, -4
sw $s0, 0($sp)
add $s0, $zero, $zero
L1:
add $t1, $s0, $a1
lb $t2, 0($t1)
add $t3, $s0, $a0
sb $t2, 0($t3)
beq $t2, $zero, L2
addi $s0, $s0, 1
j L1
L2:
lw $s0, 0($sp)
addi $sp, $sp, 4
jr $ra
.data
ex_msg_og: .asciiz "Original string:\n"
ex_msg_cpy: .asciiz "\nCopied string:\n"
string: .asciiz "Nice string you got there!\n"