Practice Indirect Addressing (29.2.3) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What is immediate addressing?
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Think about whether the data is part of the instruction.
Question 2.
Define direct addressing.
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How does the instruction fetch data?
3Question 3.
What is the primary characteristic of immediate addressing?
- Data is in instruction
- Data requires memory access
- Data is in registers
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Think about where the data resides.
4Question 4.
True or False: Indirect addressing involves directly accessing the operand.
- True
- False
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Consider the steps involved to find the data.
Question 5.
You have a function that uses indirect addressing to access data. Describe how changing the reference address affects data retrieval.
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Think about how the address directs you.
Question 6.
Implement a simple algorithm that illustrates the use of stack addressing for managing function calls.
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Use a simple function call example.

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