Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-1 at Wed Jul  7 09:23:38 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
User can load instruction into code segment in execution time, because instruction is also 32 bits datum. It causes unexpectable result in excution.
We can prevent it by setting code segment as read-only.


Your Answer for Question 2:
subnormal means not normalized number, such as 0.00003 * 2 ^126. Subnormal can't be normalized because exponent is too small. we care about this because of gradual underflow.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Because last bit of x might be dropped before calculation. 

Your Answer for Question 4:
We can have common floating-point format, and operation is commutive. These are advantages. But we should handle exceptions manually. This is disadvantage. Therefore, exception handling would be the strongest argument for and against adhering to the standard.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-bd-1089217418-3179.