15 Load Immediate

The following example shows the li pseudoinstruction which is used to load immediate values:

  .equ  CONSTANT, 0xdeadbeef

  li  a0, CONSTANT

Which, for RV32I, generates the following assembler output, as seen by objdump:

00000000 \<.text>:
   0: deadc537            lui a0,0xdeadc
   4: eef50513            addi  a0,a0,-273 # deadbeef \<CONSTANT+0x0>