Consider the j(jump) instruction in MIPS. How far can it jump in memory? Would it be 32bits? Can i please have an explanation.
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Consider the j(jump) instruction in MIPS. How far can it jump in memory? Would it be 32bits? Can i please have an explanation.
From this page, you’ll see that the jump instruction has the following effects:
targetis a 26 bit number. That means thejinstruction can jump to any absolute address that can be created from the operation above. The largest value fortarget, therefore, is 226-1 (0x03FFFFFF), and the highest reachable address is(PC & 0xF0000000) | 0x0FFFFFFC.