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I am very new to Assembly language. I was reading about MIPS architecture and came to know that you have addi opcode but there is no subi opcode. Why don’t we have a subi opcode?
When you create an instruction set, you’re bound by some constraints, such as the total number of instructions you can create. The MIPS creators realized that there isn’t a need for
subi(because you can add a negative number withaddiusing 2’s complement), and they simply made the decision to forego making that instruction. It may have been to conserve the number of instructions, or just simply because it isn’t needed.