Assignment 1   (Marks 10)

•    Date of assignment out:20.07.2006  

•    Last date of report: 30.07.2006

•    Compile the following C program with -S option on SunFire (10.5.18.61  or 10.5.18.62)

                       gcc -Wall -S -O0 what.c

•   You get the assembly language program (witout optimization) what.s  

•    Write comments in the file .s  explaining the assembly language code and its connection with the C program. 

•    Use the SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual and SPARV-V9 Architecture Manual.

             SPARK Assembly Language Manual
                SPARCV9 Architecture Manual
               SPARCV9 ABI Manual
                Lecture I (ps) (pdf)
                

•    It is expected that you will understand the instruction set architecture (ISA), instruction format, register usage convention  etc. of this system.

•    A sample program and the assembly code with comments:  merge.c   merge.s
  

•    Report is the commented what.s file. Make sure that the assembly code can be compiled even after writing the comments.  Name the file as <rollNo>_01.s. The file should contain your identity e.g. name, roll number,  assignment number etc.

•     Send your report to goutam@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in or goutam@iitkgp.ac.in