I wrote a SAMPLE CODE - Hello.S to work for a cross-assembler mips-linux-as - but this is giving me an error message: ".data quest: .asciiz "Hello World!" .text _start: la $a0, quest li $v0, 4 syscall " The error messages are: " Hello.S line 5: illegal operands 'la' Hello.S line 6: illegal operands 'li'" Can anyone help? What is wrong? -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8