Ripes

Supported Environment Calls

Version 2.1.0 and later

All supported environment calls for your version of Ripes is described in the Help-> System calls menu, within the application.

Version 2.0.0

Ripes supports the following environment calls:

a7 a0 Name Description
1 (integer to print) print_int Prints the value located in a0 as a signed integer
2 (float to print) print_float Prints the value located in a0 as a floating point number
4 (pointer to string) print_string Prints the null-terminated string located at address in a0
10 - exit Halts the simulator
11 (char to print) print_char Prints the value located in a0 as an ASCII character
34 (integer to print) print_hex Prints the value located in a0 as a hex number
35 (integer to print) print_bin Prints the value located in a0 as a binary number
36 (integer to print) print_unsigned Prints the value located in a0 as an unsigned integer
93 (status code) exit Halts the simulator and exits with status code in a0

Example Usage

Printing to console

.data
str: .string "abc"

.text
li a0 42
li a7 1
ecall     # prints "42" to console

li a7 11
ecall     # prints "*" to console (ASCII(42) = '*')

la a0 str
li a7 4
ecall     # Prints "abc" to console

Stopping the simulator

To stop the Ripes simulator, either use the ecall convention as below, or branch to a label that is located at the end of the .text segment in the source code.

.text
main:
li a7 10
ecall
# The following instructions will not get executed
li a1 1
li a2 1
li a3 1