Quiz 2

If one subroutine calls another, we must at least preserve (138)

Early microprocessors which disappeared from the market did so because (158)

Which processor uses instructions which are of different lengths (155)

The MIPS J instruction uses ______ addressing (116)

The market in which Intel processors do not do well is (158)

The 64-bit ARM v8 is an extension of the design of the 32-bit ARM v7. (159)

Which register is used in allocation of memory on the heap? (104)

Intel's widest register is ____ bits wide (152)

While the C language is compiled and linked, the Java language is __________ (145)

With the arrival of multimedia applications in the late 1990s, Intel introduced (150)

Which of the following is a pseudoinstruction? (137)

The jal instruction is unique because it also (97)

Intel's 1978 microprocessor, the 8086 had a 16-bit architecture with (150)

The Intel instruction set has special instructions for string move and string compare (154)

If subroutine A calls subroutine B (100)

A branch instruction is a(n) ____ instruction (113)

Storage and use of decimal numbers for computation in computers is (107)

Which MIPS registers should not be used by the programmer? (105)

Which is not a type of MIPS instruction? (113)

Inlining saves (138)

What is the output of a Java compiler (131)

A disadvantage of recursion is that it can consume a lot of (104)

What best describes what a linker does? (124)

Some character sets use 16-bit characters. The would be loaded by which MIPS command? (110)

The J instruction immediate field is _____ bits. (113)

Which instruction is commonly used for a subroutine call? (96)

To adjust the stack pointer to make room for three 32-bit values,the correct instruction is(99)

Computers write numbers to memory differently than characters (178)

The most popular instruction set for embedded devices is the _____ ISA (146)

The MIPS instruction set has many more data addressing modes than the ARM set. (147)

Which is not a difference between the MIPS and ARM processor (146)

The reason the "ugly" Intel architecture has survived over the years is that (157)

When floating point operations were introduced in the Intel processor line, (150)

The J-type instruction has an immediate field which is ____ bits long (113)

What is the fastest way of saving a variable in the $a0 register (138)

The difference between ASCII and Unicode is (109)

Intel's instruction set is characterized by (149)

What MIPS registers bound the local variable storage area for a subroutine? (103)

Which operation is unsupported in the ARM-7 instruction set? (146)

Which describes a symbol table? (125)

When a program is loaded into memory, the text segment (104)

Each ARM instruction begins with _____ (147)

What is the input to the Java Virtual Machine (131)

What is the output of a linker? (126)

In general, a more complex instruction set means (148)

Integer addition and subtraction use the same add-and-carry logic in the CPU. (178)

Which is not a MIPS design principle? (161)

ARMS processors can load blocks of memory into multiple registers with one instruction (148)

Two methods of indexing lists of numbers are (141)

To move a unicode character from memory to a register, which MIPS instruction should be used?

In general, Intel's arithmetic instructions (152)

In a recursive procedure (101)

Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) (129)

Registers in the current Intel processors are the same length (153)

Machine Code optimized for speed has the fewest instructions (140)

The MIPS and ARM instruction sets differ widely on how they perform (147)

A large number (more than 200) instructions were added to the intel instruction set (150)

Which is the fastest way to convert an array index to a memory address location (144)