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Comprehensive Computer Architecture: MCP, Pointers, Memory Management, MIPS

Learn about control, datapath, memory, input, output, negative number encodings, memory management, pointers, pass by value/reference, allocation schemes, MIPS instructions, memory mapping, and garbage collection. Gain insights into different encoding schemes, memory structures, instruction formats, and management techniques.

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Comprehensive Computer Architecture: MCP, Pointers, Memory Management, MIPS

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  1. CS61C Review Midterm Spring 2008

  2. Five Elements of a Computer • Control • Datapath • Memory • Input • Output

  3. Negative Numbers • Sign/Magnitude • One's Complement • Two's Complement • Pros, Cons of Each

  4. C Topics • Pointers! • malloc, free • Handles • Pass by Value vs Pass by Reference • Arrays • Structs • typedef

  5. Memory Management • Static • The Stack • The Heap

  6. Memory ManagementAllocation Schemes • Best-fit • First-fit • Next-fit • Slab • Buddy

  7. MIPS • R, I, J format instructions (on your green sheet!) • MAL vs TAL • MIPS to Binary, Binary to MIPS • Difference between branches, jumps

  8. Various Other Things • Floats • CALL (Compile, Assemble, Link, Load)

  9. Garbage Collection • Reference Counting • Mark and Sweep • Copying • Pros and Cons

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