WGU C952 Computer Architecture Chapter 3WGU C952 Computer Architecture Chapter 3 & 4 Vocabulary Exam practice test Questions and Answers updated 2024/2025 branch address table - correct answer table of addresses of alternative instruction sequences proc
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WGU C952 Computer Architecture Chapter 3 & 4 Vocabulary Exam practice test Questions and Answers updated 2024/2025
branch address table - correct answer table of addresses of alternative instruction sequences
procedure - correct answer stored subroutine that performs a specific task based on ...
WGU C952 Computer Architecture Chapter 3 & 4
Vocabulary Exam practice test Questions and
Answers updated 2024/2025
branch address table - correct answer table of addresses of alternative instruction
sequences
procedure - correct answer stored subroutine that performs a specific task based on
the parameters with which it is provided
banch-and-link instruction - correct answer an instruction that branches to an address
and simultaneously saves the address of the following instruction in a register
LR or X30 in LEGv8
Return Address - correct answer a link to the called site that allows a procedure to
return tot he proper address
LEGv8 stored in LR (X30)
Callee - correct answer procedure that executes a series of stored instructions based
on parameters provided by the caller and then returns control to the caller
Program Counter (PC) - correct answer the register containing the address of the
instruction in the program being executed
Stack Pointer - correct answer a value denoting the most recently allocated address in
a stack that shows where registers should be spilled or where old register values can be
found
LEGv8 SP
, Global Pointer - correct answer the register that is reserved to point to the static area
procedure frame - correct answer aka activation record
segment of the stack containing a procedure's saved registers and local variables
Frame Pointer - correct answer a value denoting the location of the saved registers
and local variables for a given procedure
Text Segment - correct answer the segment of a UNIX object file that contains the ML
code for routines in the source file
ASCII - correct answer 8-bit bytes to represent characters
PC-Relative Addressing - correct answer an addressing regime in which the address is
the same of the PC (program counter) and a constant in the instruction
branch address = PC + constant
immediate addressing - correct answer the operand is a constant within the instruction
itself
register addressing - correct answer the operand is a register
base addressing/displacement addressing - correct answer the operand is at the
memory location whose address is the sum of a register and constant in the instruction
address = register + constant
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