Y86 assembly global variables

Question

I am struggling to get global variables to work correctly for my Y86 assignment. Unfortunately the only examples we were provided with are in IA-32 assembly. I have searched f

Answer 1

irmovl as the name says is immediate to register. You want mrmovl as that is memory to register.

As for the syntax, since y86 does support displacement, I would expect mrmovl x, %edx to work. You say it doesn't, as a workaround you could use 2 instructions:

irmovl x, %edx     # load address
mrmovl (%edx), %edx # fetch value