CSC 211: Exam 2

1 Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit you should be able to

Trace an execution of a MIPS assembly program
Translate C code to MIPS assembly, including
- Assignment statements
- Basic arithmetic (+,-) and bitwise operations (, &, - , <<, and >>)
- if-else statements
- switch statements
- for, while, and do-while loops
- Array accesses (reads and writes)
- Pointer arithmetic and dereferencing
- Function calls with parameters and return values
Distinguish MIPS instructions from pseudoinstructions
Identify the value of a load byte operation on the big-endian MIPS architecture after a store word operation
Identify the format of a given MIPS instruction (e.g., R, I, or J)
Write MIPS procedures that obey calling conventions
Save/retrieve values on/from the call stack
Convert between MIPS a assembly instruction and its machine code representation
Identify the addressing mode of any MIPS instruction that changes the PC
Calculate the numerical value of BranchAddr for a branch address in a branch instruction, given MIPS assembly code including the target label
Identify the range of addresses available to a jump or branch instruction
Explain the tasks of the compiler, assembler, and linker (respectively)
Provide the contents of the relocation and symbol tables in an object file, given an assembly program

The following exercises are from Patterson and Hennessy (Fifth Edition)