Question

I have to write an assembly program that will find the minimum of array of ints (fed into the program from C as a pointer)

Can anyone tell me how to do it ? or at least how to store/access the array in assembler ?

Normally the variables are accessed by consecutive buffors e.g. :

subcc %i0, 2, %l0

but I don’t have a clue how to do it with arrays.

Answer 1

Rebember that in C expression arr[i] is in fact equivalent to *(arr + i).

To access value in array you need to calculate it’s address – it’s arr + i * sizeof(int). Then you can use ld, st instructions to read or write.