jwhitson@wpi.wpi.edu (John C Whitson KB2GNC) (12/14/89)
Help! Very quick easy question!!! I have a DEC DECStation 3100 running Ultrix, and If I do the following: cc -S file.c I get the associated .s file, the assembly level code. In there, there are a large amount of symbols, etc, of the format $n, where n is a number. $sp is also referred to in the spirit of a stack pointer. Could someone help me out by pointing out what the $ symbol does here, and how one would recognize a register from a local symbol, because the .s file contains both in the same context. Why on Earth, do you ask, am I looking at .s files? Because I am a teaching assistant for a class here at WPI in VAX Assembly language, and I wish to illustrate the difference between a CISC machine and a RISC machine. I figured, not knowing MIPS Assembler, that all I had to do was throw a small C file into the compiler, and I could guess at the output. Alas, I was wrong. But thanks for helping me out!! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Whitson: Internet: jwhitson@wpi.wpi.edu Bitnet: jwhitson@wpi.bitnet UUCP: uunet!wpi.wpi.edu!jwhitson ---------- Anything with this tag on it is purely my own opinion ---------