CSC231 Addressing Mode Exercises

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Exercises on Addressing Modes

Exercise 1

Write a program that changes all the characters of an all-uppercase string to all-lowercase. We assume the string does not contain blank spaces


Exercise 2

Write a program that fills an array of 8 bytes with the first 8 fibonacci terms


fib     db      1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
NOFIB   equ     $-fib

        mov     ebx, fib
        mov     esi, 2          ; point to Fib[3]                               
        mov     ecx, NOFIB-2    ; skip first 2 Fibs                             
        mov     al, byte[ebx+esi-1] ;                                           
for:    add     al, byte[ebx+esi-2]
        mov     byte[ebx+esi], al ; fib_i = fib_i-1 + fib_i-2                   
        inc     esi               ; point to next uncomputed fib                
        loop    for               ; go back  


Exercise 3

Write a program that fills an array of 16 words with the first 16 fibonacci terms


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Exercise 4

Write a program that fills an array of 10 double-words with the first 10 powers of 2.


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Exercise 5

Assume Powers is an array of 11 words, and the first word contains a constant. Write the program that stores 1/2 the value of the constant in the 2nd word, 1/4 the value in the 3rd word, 1/8 4th word, 1/16 5th word, etc.


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Exercise 6

The example below copies a string into another string, reversing the order of the string to see if they are palindromes. Rewrite it using a based indexed addressing mode.

msg1    db      "Esope reste ici et se repose"
msg2    db      "                            "
MSGLEN  equ     $-msg2

        mov     esi, msg1
        mov     edi, msg2
        mov     ecx, MSGLEN

for     mov     al, byte[esi]
        mov     byte[edi], al
        inc     esi
        inc     edi
        loop    for