Questions on Addressibility

  1. Does the MIPS architecture have byte addressibility or word addressibility?
  2. Can a byte addressible architecture be designed with little endian byte numbering, but big endian bit numbering?
  3. Difficult Question. Describe a situtation where having byte addressibility matters, and could result in incorrect program operation.
  4. Difficult Question. Write a MAL program that determines whether the architecture that the simulator is running on uses little endian or big endian order.
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