Duplicate of Quiz 2

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

Each ARM instruction begins with _____ (147)

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

The difference between ASCII and Unicode is (109)

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

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

In general, Intel's arithmetic instructions (152)

If subroutine A calls subroutine B (100)

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

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

Intel's instruction set is characterized by (149)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which describes a symbol table? (125)

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

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

Computers write numbers to memory differently than characters (178)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which is not a MIPS design principle? (161)

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

What best describes what a linker does? (124)

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

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

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

What is the output of a linker? (126)

The MIPS J instruction uses ______ addressing (116)

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

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

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

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

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

Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) (129)

In a recursive procedure (101)

What is the output of a Java compiler (131)

Which of the following is a pseudoinstruction? (137)

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

Two methods of indexing lists of numbers are (141)

Inlining saves (138)

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

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

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

The jal instruction is unique because it also (97)

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

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