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Storing contents of a register into variable of high-level language
That's an interesting suggestion, though what I'm wondering is whether grabbing the data from the register can itself be done in the high level language. Since registers are in fixed locations, I'm wondering if there are specific addresses just to access the register file. The high level... -
Storing contents of a register into variable of high-level language
Is it possible to do the following in say, MIPS or X86 Assembly: Say I'm coding in a high-level language like java or c, and i've declared a temporary integer variable i. I want to set i to be equal to the value contained in some machine register, say $r1, whatever the value is. (I don't know...
