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[Marintha]

Hey, I've been working on this code for a little over a week. I admit, I just can't understand assembly. It feels like bashing my face against broken glass. And it's due tomorrow night now.

Anyway. This needs to take the input of up to 20 integers from a person. Then it will get the sum of those integers.

The user can specify if they want to put in, 5, 8, 10, any number of integers, as long as it's less than 20.

My issue? I have some code, but it just keeps asking for more integers. I tried putting in a variable for a counter, but now it just freaks out and demands why there are actual legible words in my code.

Any help would be great, code's here. v

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	Prompt1: .asciiz "\n How many integers (20 or less) will you input? " #gets number of integers

	Prompt2: .asciiz "\n Enter the integers (one per line): " #Elements of array A entered from keyboard

	A: .space 80 #Array A can store 20 integers (each 4 bytes)

    Output: .asciiz "\n The sum of the values entered is: " 

	counter: .space 8

	

	


.text


main:


howMany: 

	li $v0, 4 #system call code for print string

	la $a0, Prompt1 #load address of prompt1 into $a0

	syscall #print the prompt1 message


	li $v0, 5 #system call code for read integer

	syscall #reads the value of N into $v0

	

	move counter, $v0 #moves value to counter variable to free up $v0


	bge counter, 20, howMany #makes sure it's less than 20 integers, or re-prompts


getNumbers:

	li $v0, 4 #system call code for print string

	la $a0, Prompt2 #load address of prompt2 into $a0

	syscall #print the prompt2 message 


	li $v0, 5 #system call code for read integer

	syscall #reads 1st array value into $v0


	move $t1, $v0 #moves first array value to $t1 from $v0 

	sw $t1, A #stores value in first array in base address

	la $s1, A

	li counter, 1 #initializes counter to one

	addi counter, counter, 1 #should add one to the counter

	

	ble $t0, counter, getNumbers

	

	li $v0, 4

	la $a0, Output

	syscall