Consider the following program segment. Here and are the general purpose registers.
Assume that the content of memory location is and the content of the register is . The content of each of the memory locations from to is . The program is loaded from the memory location . All the numbers are in decimal.
Assume that the memory is word addressable. After the execution of this program, the content of memory location is:
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Answer: A
To find the content of memory location after execution, let's trace the loop iterations step-by-step:
- Initial values: , and .
- Iteration 1:
- ,
- Iteration 2: Modifies , increments to , and decrements to .
- Iteration 10: Starts with and .
- ,
Since , the BNZ LOOP condition fails, and the program terminates. Throughout the entire execution, the memory location is never written to. Thus, its content remains at its initial value of .
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