I need to get a MIPS program to print out the first 30 prime numbers and to compute the first 200 (strange, but its the assignment). I can figure out what's wrong with this program. All it does is print 2's out in an infinite loop and I cannot figure out why. We're only supposed to use three procedures (main, testprime, and print) but I'm so bad that I decided to use more. Thank you in advance for helping me.

.text
   .globl main

main:
	# intialize values
	ori $s0, $0, 20
	ori $s1, $0, 30
	ori $s2, $0, 2
	ori $s3, $0, 2

loop:
	ori $s3, $0, 2	
	beq $s0, $0, exit
	beq $t0, $s4, print
	j testprime

testprime:
	beq $s2, $s3, prime
	div $s2, $s3
	mfhi $t1
	beq $t1, $0, noprime
	addi $s3, $s3, 1
	j testprime

noprime:
	ori $t0, $0, 0
	addi $s2, $s2, 1
	j loop


prime:
	ori $t0, $0, 1
	sub $s0, $s0, $s4
	addi $s2, $s2, 1
	j loop	
	

print:
	ori $t0, $0, 0
	beq $s1, $0, loop
	sub $s1, $s1, $s4
	li $v0, 1
	or $a0, $0, $s2
	syscall
	li $v0, 4
	la $a0, newline
	syscall
	j loop
	

exit:
	li $v0, 10
	syscall

.data
newline: .asciiz "\n"

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Hmm. Sorry I dont know mips assembly but on line 12

ori $s3, $0, 2

It looks like your resetting something back to 2. Just an educated guess.;) Good luck!

Actually it was something stupid, I never initialized $s4 to 1 so the loop never exited. Got the answer from elsewhere, but now my problem is that my output is non-prime numbers which is the opposite of what I want.

Hmm.. Switch prime and noprime maybe :)

If only the world were that sweet.

So why aren't you using an empty block of stack and filling it with primes so then you only need to divide by earlier resolved primes instead of the entire set of numbers?

My mind is a bit tired, but as a rule you should always heavily comment your code. Right now would be a good time to do so. Have you tried single stepping your code yet?

By the way. You don't seem to initialze the temporary register $t0.

(See loop:)

gotta run, will check back when I get back!

$t0 and $s4 aren't initialized!
Not sure what you're using $s0 for.
You change the register containing the found prime before printing it. Should copy it into $s4 as you use that as part of your print test.
Not really sure what your logic on prime: is actually doing.

Well I already noted $s4 wasn't initialized. You're right about commenting my code I usually do but I was just tired. I didn't notice about $t0 though.

My logic was sort of checking each number (n) against a counter which started out as 2 then incremented. If n mod counter equaled zero then I jumped out and didn't count it as prime, but somehow I messed up.

I figured out that I was incrementing my answer before the display so that's what was wrong. I even managed to backtrack to fulfill the original condition of my assignment.

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