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• By the end of the second week, read Chapter 3, Sections 3.1 through 3.6 and 3.8, and Appendix A, Sections A1 through A4, A6, and A9.  Also look through Appendix A, Section A10. Although you will not be required to know every instruction, it will help you to become familiar with them.

• Do the following problems, and hand in the answers by the start of class on Monday, April 12.

(Note that the answers to many of these programs can be verified or even determined by using Spim.)

1. Problem 3.2.  (4 pts)
2. Problem 3.5.  (3 pts)
3. Problem 3.6. (5 pts)
4. As discussed on p. 157 and summarized in Fig 3.37, pseudoinstructions are not part of the MIPS instruction set, but often are used in assembly language programs.  For each pseudoinstruction in the table, produce a minimal sequence of actual MIPS instructions to accomplish the same thing.  You may need to use $at for some sequences.  In the following table, big refers to a specific number that requires 32 bits to represent, and small to a number that requires only 16 bits.  (13 pts)

 

Pseudoinstruction	What it does
move $t5, $t1	$t5 = $t1
clear $t2	$t2 = 0
li $t5, small	$t5 = small
li $t5, big	$t5 = big
addi $t1, $t2, big	$t1 = $t2 + big
beq $t3, small, L	if ($t3 = small) goto L
bne $t3, big, L	if ($t3 != big) goto L


 
5. Problem 3.9.  (5 pts)
6. Problem 3.25. (10 pts)
7. Problem 4.20. (4 pts)
8. Problem 4.22. (3 pts)
9. Problem 4.40. (3 pts)