C++ How to Program, 10/e

Special Section: Building Your Own Computer

In the next several problems, we take a temporary diversion away from the world of high-level-language programming. We “peel open” a simple hypothetical computer and look at its internal structure. We introduce machine-language programming and write several machine-language programs. To make this an especially valuable experience, we then build a computer (using software-based simulation) on which you can execute your machine-language programs!2

2. In Exercises 19.30–19.34, we’ll “peel open” a simple hypothetical compiler that will translate statements in a simple high-level language to the machine language you use here. You’ll write programs in that high-level language, compile them into machine language ...