Architecture Lab Release Notes

7/29/2013

  • Updated autograders to compute and summarize all autograded scores on the gradesheets.
  • Fixed some typos in the writeup and the slides.
  • In the writeup, updated references to problem numbers for iaddl and leave to include the corresponding problem numbers for the international version.

5/1/2011

This is a major update of the Arch Lab that reflects the changes in Chapter 4 of CS:APP2e.
  • Students can now use the conditional move instructions to avoid the performance problems of conditional jumps.
  • The benchmark test has a random selection of positive vs. negative numbers. So, conditional moves are really the way to go.
  • The correctness check is more robust, looking for things like overshooting the array bounds.
  • Added a 1000-byte limit on the size of the object code for the ncopy function.
  • Added Perl scripts in src/ptest that provide comprehensive regression testing of the different Y86 simulators:
    • Tests each individual instruction type.
    • Tests all of the jump types under different conditions.
    • Tests different pipeline control combinations.
    • Tests many different hazard possibilities.
  • Incorporated the regresssion tests in src/ptest into the autograding of the student solutions for parts B and C.

11/04/2004

  • Fixed problem that caused some newer Linux distributions to get tk.h from /usr/local/include instead of /usr/include. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Gerd Doeben-Henisch, Fachhochschule Frankfurt.

12/22/2003

  • Fixed minor bug that caused some compilers to complain. Changed type of return value from getopt() from char to int. Thanks to Morgan Harvey, Portland State University.

8/5/2002

  • Initial release.