diff --git a/cMIPS/include/handlers.s b/cMIPS/include/handlers.s
index 38789a900e99478a3b72d38822c03706f63b2ae3..e02fef5b485330e46d6f0e78c5441849687926c8 100644
--- a/cMIPS/include/handlers.s
+++ b/cMIPS/include/handlers.s
@@ -178,6 +178,24 @@ startCount:
 	#----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
+	#================================================================
+	# stopCount disables the COUNT register, returns new CAUSE
+	#   CAUSE.dc <= 1 to disable counting
+	#----------------------------------------------------------------
+	.text
+	.set    noreorder
+	.global stopCount
+	.ent    stopCount
+stopCount:
+	mfc0 $v0, c0_cause
+	lui  $v1, 0x0800
+        or   $v0, $v0, $v1
+	jr   $ra
+	mtc0 $v0, c0_cause
+	.end    stopCount
+	#----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 	#================================================================
 	# readCount returns the value of the COUNT register
 	#----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/cMIPS/tests/count.c b/cMIPS/tests/count.c
index 0b1ef6ec4e9323296879116f02e96ad8bd0cfe49..464c0006055643ab7de54e9e7480dec986a4fdf8 100644
--- a/cMIPS/tests/count.c
+++ b/cMIPS/tests/count.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // test if COUNT register counts up monotonically
 // returns error if the time to compute every 11th element of the Fibonacci
-//    sequence, as measured by COUNT is not monotonically increasing
+//    sequence, as measured by COUNT, is not monotonically increasing
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #include "cMIPS.h"