Quiz submission record for quiz6-2-2 at Thu Jul 29 10:53:24 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
It holds the address of an instruction affected by an exception. The cause regeister holds the cause of the exception. A non-valid instruction or an overflow with an arithmatic instruction will trigger EPC and Cause

Your Answer for Question 2:
An exception that does not report the precise address of the offending instruction.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Processor power and time is wasted in checking the same inputs over and over.

Your Answer for Question 4:
The i/o terminal can be controlled by writing to special memory locations. 

     li $t1, 0x00000001

loop:
     lw $t0, 0(0xffff0000)
     beq $t1, $t0, received
     j loop
received:
     lw $v0, 0xffff0004 


Your unique submission ID is quiz6-2-2-cs61c-ay-1091123604-1695.