Quiz submission record for quiz3-1-2 at Tue Jul  6 07:46:06 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
It's not possible for two different MIPS instructions to have the same bit pattern. Because if they do, how does the computer differentiate between them? How does it know when to interpret the bit pattern as this instruction and not the other one? So, MIPS instructions are differentiated by their op and funct fields.

Your Answer for Question 2:
If there are more than 2^16 instructions in between "here" and "there", PC-relative addressing will not work since the 16-bit address of beq can only hold value < 2^16. 


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-1-2-cs61c-bx-1089125166-2400.