Sparcassembly

CSE 30Final Review

Read Ch. 1 - 14 in textbook

Review all Programming Assignments

C, SPARC Assembly, command line args, errno, functions used in PAs including

perror(), strtol(), fopen(), fclose(), strtok(), qsort(), fgets(),

printf(), fprintf(), strncpy()/memcpy(), strlen(), strchr(),

malloc()/calloc()/realloc(), free(), getopt(), strcmp()/strncmp(),

stat(), fread()/fwrite(), bsearch(), ...

Review the Midterm and all Quizzes (and Sample Exercises)

Everything from the Midterm Review material

Stack/Local Variables

1-d arrays, 2-d arrays, 3-d arrays

storage map equations (a[i], a[i][j], a[i][j][k])

traversing with a ptr vs. array indexing

structures

structure padding/internal alignment

Subroutines

Open subroutines

Closed subroutines

Recursion

Stack Frames

local variables

parameters

SPARC architecture features

sliding register window

in/local/out register sets

call - ret

save - restore

calling conventions

passing first 6 args; passing args 7+;

preallocate 92 bytes (64 + 4 + 24)

Leaf subroutines

call - retl/nop

No save - restore

IEEE Floating Point

Single precision / double precision

Decimal fixed-point -> binary fixed-point -> normalization/hidden bit

Sign bit | biased-127 exponent | mantissa/fraction

Underflow/overflow

FP arithmetic comparisions

Text, Data, and Linkage

Text/Data/BSS/Heap/Stack

Relocatable linker (linkage editor)

Static vs. dynamic linking

Extern declarations

Storage allocation locations and scoping of variables/constants in C

Loader

Thread safety and Static variables

SPARC architecture Machine Instructions

Simple instruction encoding and decoding

Format 2, Branch instructions

Format 3, 2nd source register instructions

Format 3, Immediate constant instructions

Given opcode/branch condition tables & register field mappings

You need to know internal layout/format of instructions

set vs. mov

Exercises 8-1 & 8-2 (p. 244)

Input/Output

Big picture: disk -> mem -> cache -> register

Caches

Buffer