##output the contents of an "array" which you initialize via .byte, .word, .half
 
#then, input a string and output the string backwards

.data
string_array:
	.space 1000 #define an array 1000 bytes big

reverse_array:
	.space 1000 #define the array that will hold the reverse
 
.globl main
.text


main:

	la $a0, user_input #user input
	li $v0, 4
	syscall

	la $a0, string_array #prepare for user input into the string array
	li $a1, 1000 #telling it to feed it into those 1000 bytes of memory + 1(why +1?)
	li $v0, 8 #the actual syscall code
	syscall
	
	
	la $t0, string_array #set t1 to store an address of our string array
	la $t2, reverse_array #set t2 to be the address of our reverse array 

repeat:
	
	lb $t1, ($t0) #store the BYTE indicated by the address in t0
	beqz $t1, finish #if the address becomes 0, terminate
	
	##get the maximium of the reverse array and feed byte by byte from the back-to-front
	
	
	
	addi $t0, $t0, 4 #increase the address by 4, which moves us to the next byte 
	
finish:
	la $a0, terminate
	li $v0, 4
	syscall
	
	li $v0, 10
	syscall
	


.data

user_input:
	.asciiz "Input your string: "

terminate:
	.asciiz "Terminating the program."



#DO: hybrid assignment 7
#http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs2505/summer2011/Notes/pdf/T23.MIPSArrays.pdf
#https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#MIPS_Assembly