On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Alexis BRENON wrote: > > > To debug, I write a small program in the MARS MIPS simulator with this > > > instruction. But when compiling, assembler says me that -8 is an operand > > > of > > > incorrect type. > > The instruction you quoted assembles for me successfully, what version of > > binutils do you use and what exact error message do you get? > > I didn't try to assemble it, but only to run it in the MARS simulator. If I > assemble it with GNU AS, it assembles successfully. So what assembler have you been referring to above? Maciej