Quiz 2

In general, Intel's arithmetic instructions (152)

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

Which describes a symbol table? (125)

Which is not a MIPS design principle? (161)

Intel's instruction set is characterized by (149)

The difference between ASCII and Unicode is (109)

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

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

The jal instruction is unique because it also (97)

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

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

The MIPS J instruction uses ______ addressing (116)

If subroutine A calls subroutine B (100)

Inlining saves (138)

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

In a recursive procedure (101)

Two methods of indexing lists of numbers are (141)

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

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

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

What is the output of a linker? (126)

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

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

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

Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) (129)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the output of a Java compiler (131)

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

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

Each ARM instruction begins with _____ (147)

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

Which of the following is a pseudoinstruction? (137)

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

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

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

Computers write numbers to memory differently than characters (178)

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

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

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

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

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

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

What best describes what a linker does? (124)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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