Program In Assembly For this part, your MAL program must be in a file named p5b.

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Program In Assembly

For this part, your MAL program must be in a file named p5b.mal. It must have at least one function in addition to the main program. For the purposes of Part (b), you may assume the following 1. Any line of text typed by a user has at most 80 characters including the newline character. 2. A whitespace character refers to a space, a tab or the new line character. 3. A word is any sequence of characters that does not contain a whitespace character. In this part, you are required to write a MAL program that prompts the user for a line of text and reads the line typed by the user. If the line contains just white space characters your program should simply output the message "Line contains only white space characters." and stop. Otherwise, your program should compute and output the following (a) The number of non-whitespace characters in the line (b) The number of words in the line. c) The maximum length of a word in the line. (d) The minimum length of a word in the line. (e) The word of maximum length in the line. (If there are two or more words of maximum length in the line, then the program should print the word of maximum length that appears last in the line.)

Explanation / Answer

.data
str: .space 81 # buffer for input string
strNS: .space 81 # buffer for string w/o spaces
prompt: .asciiz "Enter a string up to 80 characters "
head1: .asciiz " Original String: "
head2: .asciiz " Number of spaces: "
head3: .asciiz " With spaces removed: "

.text
main:
#print the first prompt and get the input string from console
li $v0, 4 #load syscall value to print string into $v0
la $a0, prompt #address of prompt to print
syscall #print prompt to console
li $v0, 8 #load syscall value to read input string
la $a0, str #addr of allocated space for input string is now in $a0
li $a1, 81
syscall

jal countSpace

addi $t1, $v0, 0 #the count of spaces is in $v0, save it into $t1
li $v0, 4 #print header then the count
la $a0, head1
syscall
la $a0, str #print the original string
syscall
la $a0, head2 #print second header before printing count
syscall
li $v0, 1   
addi $a0, $t1, 0 #place the count in $a0
syscall #print the count

li $v0, 4
la $a0, head3 #print the third header
syscall
la $a0, strNS #print no spaces string
syscall

End:   
li $v0, 10 #load syscall value for exit
syscall #exit

countSpace:
la $s0, strNS
addi $sp, $sp, -12 #adjust the stack pointer for saving
sw $s0, 8($sp) #store addr of nospace string
sw $ra, 4($sp) #store return addr on the stack
sw $a0, 0($sp) #store the count on the stack

#Begin counting spaces
addi $t3, $a0, 0 #$t3 has addr of user input
addi $t5, $s0, 0 #$t5 has addr of string with no spaces
li $t6, 0 #$t6 holds index of string with no spaces
li $t0, 0 #$t0 will hold the count of spaces
li $t4, 0 #$t4 holds the index of the string
loop:
add $t1, $t3, $t4 #$t1 = addr of str[i]
lb $t2, 0($t1) #$t2 = character in str[i]
beq $t2, $zero, exitCS #break from loop if $t2 contains null character
addi $a0, $t2, 0 #place value to be checked in $a0

#save values onto stack from temp registers to preserve them
addi $sp, $sp, -28 #adjust the stack pointer for 5 values
sw $t6, 24($sp) #save index of string with no spaces
sw $t5, 20($sp) #save addr of string with no spaces
sw $t4, 16($sp) #save index of user input
sw $t3, 12($sp) #save the addr of user input
sb $t2, 8($sp) #save the character in str[i]
sw $t1, 4($sp) #save the address of str[i]
sw $t0, 0($sp) #save the count of spaces

jal isSpace #result from this jump and link will be in $v0 after call

#pop saved values from the stack, then reset the pointer
lw $t6, 24($sp)
lw $t5, 20($sp)
lw $t4, 16($sp)
lw $t3, 12($sp)
lb $t2, 8($sp)
lw $t1, 4($sp)
lw $t0, 0($sp)
addi $sp, $sp, 28 #reset stack pointer
beq $v0, $zero, addTo #if not a space, continue to next character
addi $t0, $t0, 1 #if it is a space, increment count
addTo:
bne $v0, $zero, nextChar #If character is a space, branch
sll $t7, $t6, 2 #index if nospaces string stores width of 4
add $t7, $t7, $t5 #now $t7 points at nospaces[i]
sb $t2, 0($t7) #store the character in the nospaces string
addi $t6, $t6, 1 #increment the index of nospaces

nextChar:

addi $t4, $t4, 1 #increment the index value
j loop #jump back to loop and continue processing

exitCS:
addi $v0, $t0, 0 #count of spaces placed into $v0
addi $v1, $t5, 0
lw $ra, 4($sp) #load return addr from the stack
lw $a0, 0($sp) #load value to check from the stack
addi $sp, $sp, 8 #reset stack pointer
jr $ra #return

isSpace:
addi $sp, $sp, -12 #adjust stack pointer to make room
sw $s0, 8($sp)
sw $ra, 4($sp) #store value of return addr onto stack
sw $a0, 0($sp) #store value to check onto stack

#Check to see if the character is a space
li $t0, 32 #ascii value for space character loaded into $t0
li $v0, 0 #Set default return to 0, or "not a space character"
bne $t0, $a0, endSC #if ascii values match, character is a space
li $v0, 1 #$v0 = 1 means it is a space character

endSC:
lw $s0, 8($sp)
lw $ra, 4($sp) #restore return address
lw $a0, 0($sp) #restore addr of str
addi $sp, $sp, 12 #reset the stack pointer

end: jr $ra

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