Programming.

[quest]

hey guys.

i've gotto write code in assembly language which can perform mathmetical functions.

multiply, divide, square, squareroot, exponential and factorial.

i don't really know where to start or where to go for help?
hoping someone can help me out.
cheers guys

 

[spider_007]

what you need to do is add the square root of the coeficient of the subassambly to the result of the second assably sqared.

NEEERRRRDDDDD ALERT!!!!!!!

Go find some chicks to play with

 

[flyinshark]

I have already programmed in SPIM (or MIPS), which was an assembly language. You can do a google search for SPIM and download it if u want. Documentation is also available online.

 

[Life-Trainee]

you didn't specify which processor, in either case RTFM.

 

[rgeere]

wrong forum to ask, try win32asm.cjb.net

 

[Daral]

Yeah, the solution is going to vary from instruction set to instruction set. In some languages mult and div are provided for already...

But I agree with everyone above. RTFM, and then come back when you have a more specific question.

 

[quest]

Originally posted by Daral
Yeah, the solution is going to vary from instruction set to instruction set. In some languages mult and div are provided for already...

But I agree with everyone above. RTFM, and then come back when you have a more specific question.

i'm not sure what RTFM means.

but its written in kel(micro) vision. (or something like that).

its the same as MIPS with how the addition/subtraction is.

i have to use them along with jumps and loops or whatever to perform the other maths functions.

 

[check_mate_kid_uk]

damn that sucks, and to think i complain about having to do it in some 3rd genration language!

 

[Gus]

RTFM = Read the Fukin Manual

along with jumps and loops or whatever

Are you sure you know what you're getting into? Assembly is very unforgiving, hard, and complicated...

 

[rgeere]

Originally posted by derEikopf
RTFM = Read the Fukin Manual


Are you sure you know what you're getting into? Assembly is very unforgiving, hard, and complicated...

This is very untrue, assembler is actually very easy .. it is just people give up before they can really program anything with it. You must be patient if you are going to code in assembly, and you have to take the time to experiment and learn what the diffrent instructions do and how they interact with the other instructions.

 

[flyinshark]

Ok ... assembly is not that hard to learn. But it's really a pain in the ass to debug and find your mistakes. Not to mention that it takes like 4-5 instructions to do what you would have done in 1 instruction in a higher level language, hence ridiculously long code for simple applications.

 

[rgeere]

Originally posted by flyinshark
Ok ... assembly is not that hard to learn. But it's really a pain in the ass to debug and find your mistakes. Not to mention that it takes like 4-5 instructions to do what you would have done in 1 instruction in a higher level language, hence ridiculously long code for simple applications.

The code is rediculously long, but it is also much more efficent. You also know enough so that after you have learned to program well in assembler you can switch back to a higher level compiler and even learn to tweek the deficencies of coding in higher level code.

 

[SELF-MASTERY]

I am so glad I got of computer science.

 

[quest]

Originally posted by spider_007
what you need to do is add the square root of the coeficient of the subassambly to the result of the second assably sqared.

NEEERRRRDDDDD ALERT!!!!!!!

Go find some chicks to play with

firstly, i couldn't be bothered with this clown last night.

i'm doing something that i enjoy (for the most part).
i'm doing it at university level, so hopefully it'll lead me into a good job.

and beleive me, when i "find chicks to play with" they are very enthusiastic about a good looking, fun guy, who is studying computer engineering.

but thats enough about that.

i ended up acing the test. but it wasn't on any of this. but it could have been