Testing Your SPIM Stack Routines

Tom Kelliher, CS 220

Oct. 28, 2011

Follow these instructions:

1. Login to phoenix, start a shell, and cd to the directory where you stack routines file is.

2. Assuming your stack routines are in the file project.s, execute the command

   cat ~kelliher/pub/cs220/testStack.s project.s > testStack.s
   

   (Notes: Change project.s to the appropriate file name for you. If your routines are already in the file testStack.s, use the mv command to rename your routines file.)

3. Open testStack.s in an editor and perform any editing that might be necessary.

4. Run the program:

   spim -file testStack.s
   

   Hopefully, all tests will pass. If not, using the error message printed and the test program itself (it's pretty well commented), fix the broken routine. (Note: Two of the tests require un-commenting and then re-commenting three lines.)

Tom Kelliher