MIPS Assembly Labels

Question

Does assembly for MIPS read every label? ignore the task and syntax, I just put something together quick.

add reg3, reg1, $zero
add reg1, reg1, reg2
beq reg1         


        

Answer 1

Labels are only so you can reference the line with a jump. The CPU itself will only see the machine code. The same is true of any comments in your code. They are only there in the assembler - this is then converted into machine code.

You will need to jump over a line if you don't want it executing.