Instruction references undefined symbol at 0x00400014 [MIPS]

Question

Every file i try to load into QTSPIM gives me this error:

Instruction references undefined symbol at 0x00400014 [0x00400014] 0x0c000000 jal 0x00000000 [main] ; 188: jal main

I am loading the file and the file does have a "main:" in it and if I put ".global main" before "main" it does the same thing. What is going on?

Answer 1

The directive you're looking for is .globl, not .global.

So:

.globl main
.text
main:
    # Awesome code goes here