University of California at Berkeley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

CS 61C, Summer 2008

HW 1

Due Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 11:59pm

Last Updated June 22, 2008 @ 5pm

Goals

This assignment checks your understanding of the material in P&H Chapter 1 as well as some number representation basics. It will also give you practice compiling and executing C programs.

Background reading

Submitting Your Solution

Submit your solution by creating a directory named hw1 that contains files named cod.txt, bitcount.c, and mycalc.c. (Note that capitalization matters in file names; the submission program will not accept your submission if your file names differ at all from those specified.) From within that directory, type "submit hw1". Partners are not allowed on this assignment.

Note that you will need to create the file cod.txt.

Problem 0

Copy the contents of ~cs61c/hw/01 to a suitable location in your home directory.
  $ mkdir ~/hw
  $ cp -r ~cs61c/hw/01/ ~/hw
All the files referred in this homework will be in the folder you copied.

Problem 1

In cod.txt, answer the following questions:

Problem 2

What are the decimal values of each of the following binary numbers if you interpret them as 2's complement integers? Add your answers in cod.txt.

Problem 3

What are the decimal values of each of the following binary numbers if you interpret them as unsigned integers? Add your answers to cod.txt.

Problem 4

For each of the bit lengths and number representations below, list the binary encodings and decimal values of the possible numbers closest to +infinity and to -infinity. (For each of the three parts to this question, you will provide two binary strings and two corresponding decimal numbers.) Add your answers to cod.txt

Problem 5

Write a function named bitCount() in bitcount.c that returns the number of 1-bits in the binary representation of its unsigned integer argument. Remember to fill in the identification information and run the completed program to verify correctness.
  /*
    Name:
    Lab section time:
  */

  #include <stdio.h>

  int bitCount (unsigned int n);

  int main ( )
  {
    printf ("# 1-bits in base 2 representation of %u = %d, should be 0\n",
      0, bitCount (0));
    printf ("# 1-bits in base 2 representation of %u = %d, should be 1\n",
      1, bitCount (1));
    printf ("# 1-bits in base 2 representation of %u = %d, should be 16\n",
      2863311530u, bitCount (2863311530u));
    printf ("# 1-bits in base 2 representation of %u = %d, should be 1\n",
      536870912, bitCount (536870912));
    printf ("# 1-bits in base 2 representation of %u = %d, should be 32\n",
      4294967295u, bitCount (4294967295u));
    return 0;
  }

  int bitCount (unsigned int n)
  {
    /* your code here */
  }

Problem 6

Write a basic calculator program which takes three command-line arguments (see K&R Sec. 5.10) and evaluates them as an arithmetic expression. The command-line arguments will consist of two integers (representable by an int) and a string ("plus", "minus", "times", or "over") in the order int opstring int. Calls to the program should work as below:
    # ./mycalc 5 minus 2
    3
    # ./mycalc 10002 times 5
    50010
    # ./mycalc 5 over 2
    2
    # ./mycalc 10 100 donkey donkey
    too many arguments!
    # ./mycalc
    too few arguments!
Your code should be in a file named mycalc.c. We will not be testing for malformed input other than supplying too many or too few arguments.. (Hint: you may find the functions atoi and strcmp useful, as well as a case-switch statement.)

Extra for experts (just for fun, no extra points will be awarded for completing this): Extend your program to take an arbitrary number of arguments, given as follows: ./mycalc int op int op int op int ... Unless you are feeling particularly ambitious, we encourage you to use one level of operator precedence and left to right associativity.