Quiz submission record for quiz3-1-2 at Sun Jul  4 19:04:39 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
No, two different MIPS instructions will be unique.  They cannot have the same bit pattern because the computer cannot make a decision and resolve any ambiguity in two identical MIPS instructions.  Also, the RISC philosophy aims to keep the simple case fast, so if all instructions were given a unique bit pattern, the computer can easily execute it without having to compare or extract information to decide what to do.


Your Answer for Question 2:
If those two lines are 2^15 or more instructions apart from each other, then the 16 bit-field that PC-relative addressing uses does not have enough bits to point to "There" from "Here"'s address.  



Your unique submission ID is quiz3-1-2-cs61c-cj-1088993079-1154.