> I didn't care at all about the grade, as I was just there to learn the material (and was irritated about learning MIPS instead of something useful like RISC-V), but I tried working through it for a while, an incredibly tedious exercise. Then I talked to a few other students, and literally every single one got the code off some online site. It was auto-graded via online submission, so they got their good grade and moved on.
The fun part is the compiler class where the code generator is creating MIPS assembly... and then if you don't understand the proper way to write a for loop or do a system call in MIPS, or the register conventions for which are preserved and which are saved (and how to save them and the proper use of frame pointer) - you'll be at a complete loss.
The fun part is the compiler class where the code generator is creating MIPS assembly... and then if you don't understand the proper way to write a for loop or do a system call in MIPS, or the register conventions for which are preserved and which are saved (and how to save them and the proper use of frame pointer) - you'll be at a complete loss.