CS-322 Compiler Design
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Homework 2
Due Date: Thursday, January 26, 2006, 2:00
Your Name:___________________________________
Question 1 Consider the “gdb” debugger. Which command do you use to... (Just show
the command name, not any arguments.)
Set a breakpoint? ______
Continue execution after a breakpoint is reached? ______
Begin execution of a program? ______
Display a data value? ______
Examine memory contents? ______
Change a register? ______
Display a routine’s instructions? ______
Execute the next (machine) instruction, skipping over any called subroutines?
______
Execute the next (machine) instruction, including all instructions in called
routines? ______
Execute the next (source language) statement, skipping over any called
subroutines? ______
Execute the next (source language) statement, including all instructions in called
routines? ______
Display the contents of the routine calling stack? ______
Display the contents of all registers (show the parameter)? ______
Question 2 How many bits are in a single precision floating point number? _____
How many bits are in a double precision floating point number? _____
Question 2a How many bytes are in a single precision floating point number? _____
How many bytes are in a double precision floating point number? _____
