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Week 7 Discussion assignment submission, which is included in my learning journal entry...

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The Hack assembler is a two-pass assembler. Explain why there is a need for going twice over the code. The assembly of the programs may perhaps contain symbols in the code, it could be required on the hack assembler towards over in the code twice. Moreover for the reason that when it produces the code, it will go to command then it requires for the program towards jump into an exact objective in the previous in such a destination it could be identified into the program. In addition to in the first pass, an assembler will discover the whole symbols along with it is create a symbol to the table with the whole symbols with their equivalent to the destination as ROM address. Furthermore, a second pass, was assembler will utilize on the symbol to the table into a substitute for the symbols in there objective, then for final binary code can be produced. “In the first pass, the assembler builds the symbol table and generates no code. In the second pass, all the label symbols encountered in the program have already been bound to memory locations and recorded in the symbol table” (Nisan & Schocken, 2005, p. 116). There is a method named backpatching that solves this issue with one pass only. Describe this method. The backpatching is frequently refers to a procedure for which on the operand on-field or there command it contains to an ahead for the reference it has been absent blank primarily. In addition to an address for the forward reference, it was a symbol is a place in the field while it is the definition that could be come across into program. Nevertheless, the procedure frequently occurs while the code is been accumulate to contains a symbolic label it does not yet classify, along with this it has been merely occurring for one pass contrast for hacker assembler for it. What are the pros and cons of one pass assembly vs. two-pass assembly?

For the first pass, in the assembler bypass over in the resource file just at once, in addition to is like the assembler interpret on the one line for the resources file by a time gather for labels, resolves for the future references along with it does a real assembly for similar in the past. Moreover, it is the hard part too it could solve in the future labels along with the assemble code for the one pass. In addition, the major advantage for an assembler is to checks and to see either the direction it could be legal on present assembly mode, then it assigns space on the direction along with the storage areas you ask for then it could fill into the values in the constants when it could be possible. Moreover, the second pass on assembler has been observing in operands into a symbolic reference in storage space in a spot along with settles on symbolic references meaning of sequence in the symbol table.In addition to ensures that it does not have instructions to contain an invalid instruction in the form, however, it interprets source report to the machine code along with the constants, then, therefore, the filling is allocating in the space with object code after that it also to create a file containing the error messages, then if any have to occur to be. Nevertheless in the beginning then the second pass, the assembler scans every source of the statement for a second time. In addition, the assembler interprets every instruction, then it increments for the value to contain at the position counter References. Tarnoff, D. (2007). Computer organization and design fundamentals. http://faculty.etsu.edu/tarnoff/138292/ Nisan, N., & Schocken, S. (2005). The elements of computing systems. MIT Press. http://f.javier.io/rep/books/The%20Elements%20of%20Computing%20Systems.pdf...