Practice Analysis Of Addressing Mode Advantages (32.3.2)

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Question 1.
What does it mean to push a value onto the stack?
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Think about the structure of the stack.
Question 2.
Define immediate addressing.
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Consider how data is fetched when an instruction runs.
3Question 3.
What does 'pushing' a value onto the stack do?
- Adds the value to the stack
- Removes the value from the stack
- Neither
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Consider the process of stacking items.
4Question 4.
True or False: Immediate addressing is slower than displacement addressing.
- True
- False
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Think about how data is accessed.
Question 5.
Imagine a program that heavily relies on array data. Would immediate addressing suffice everywhere? Justify your answer.
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Consider how arrays function in programming.
Question 6.
Create a simple stack machine program that computes the result of (3 + 5) * (6 - 4) using stack operations.
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Remember how to use push and apply the arithmetic operations.

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