April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 13m
English
book
Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
by James S. Evans - Lawrence University, Gregory L. Trimper - viika
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Exercises
| 1: | What is meant by a programming environment? |
| 2: | Give an example of a simple statement in a high-level language and its assembly language equivalent. |
| 3: | What are the meanings of the special symbols—such as “:” and “;” or “/”—used in writing an assembly language statement? |
| 4: | Point out the specific aspects of SQUARES that you think would need to be modified in order to use double word instead of quad word storage. |
| 5: | What are the advantages of equating a value to a symbol that can be used throughout a program? |
| 6: | Write the syntax for specifying the value 42 using several radix values for an Itanium assembler for the programming environment that you are using. |
| 7: | Some assemblers support a user-defined symbol table for registers.
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