ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPILER DESIGN
CODE GENERATION FOR OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGES
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Question
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What is an instruction?
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A box in a flowchart
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One or more statements grouped together to instruct the computer to perform a task
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A calculation performed in a programming language
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A set of instructions that directs a computer’s hardware to perform a task is called a program, or software program. The two main types of software are system software and application software.
Detailed explanation-2: -A program is a set of instructions that a computer follows to perform a task.
Detailed explanation-3: -These instructions are loaded to the CPU one at a time, where it receives decoded and implemented. A basic computer has three instruction code formats such as the memory reference instruction, the register reference instruction, and the input-output instruction format.
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