Quiz submission record for quiz2-2-1 at Tue Jun 29 18:17:28 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
As far as MIPS is concerned, only the if and goto statements are required.  Both the do while and the while statements can be performed with just if statements and gotos.  I believe that the two while statements are included to make life easier for C programmers since doing a while loop with if statements is not fun.  Also, C doesn't seem to have the goto option that MIPS does.

Your Answer for Question 2:
C has the following decision statements: if, while, switch case, and for.

MIPS has the following: beq, bne, and slt.

The designers of MIPS probably wanted to include as little unique instructions as possible.  Since all of the other statements in C can be represented by the three MIPS statements, there is no need for anything else.  Also, it is much easier to tell a computer to compare two numbers than to perform an entire loop.

Your Answer for Question 3:
I did not find the reading too difficult.  I did find it somewhat hard to remember all of the different instructions and how to translate the C statements into MIPS.


Your unique submission ID is quiz2-2-1-cs61c-ae-1088558248-812.