Write the MIPS assembly code to implement the following C code as an atomic “set max” operation using the lI/sc instructions. Here, the argument shvar contains the address of a shared variable, which should be replaced by x if x is greater than the value it points to:

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void setmax(int* shvar, int x) { // Begin critical section if (x > *shvar) *shvar = x; // End critical section} }