#	text segment (code)
	.text		
       	.globl __start 
__start:
	lw $t0, X       # I-type memory transfer (pseudo instruction)
#	lui $s0, 0x1000 # machine instruction
#	lw $t0, 0($s0)  # I-type memory transfer (machine instruction); 

	lw $t1, Y       # I-type memory transfer (pseudo instruction)
#	lw $t1, 4($s0)  # I-type memory transfer (machine instruction); 

	beq $t0, $t1, equal

	la $a0,msg2	      # load msg2 (pseudo instruction)
#	lui $a0, 0x1000   # machine instruction
#	ori $a0, $a0, 29  # machine instruction
	
	addi $v0, $0, 4	# syscall to print string
	syscall 

	beq $0, $0, exit  # unconditional branch

equal:	
	la $a0,msg1	  # load msg1 (pseudo instruction)
#	lui $a0, 0x1000   # machine instruction
#	ori $a0, $a0, 8   # machine instruction

	addi $v0, $0, 4	# syscall to print string
	syscall 

exit:	addi $v0,$0, 10
	syscall	# ends the program

# 	 data segment
	.data 0x10000000
X:	.word 0xff
Y: 	.word 255
msg1:	.asciiz "$t0 is equal to $t1\n"
msg2:	.asciiz "$t0 is not equal to $t1\n"