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CHAPTER 16 — More Memory Access

This chapter discusses some more instructions that load registers (from memory) and that store registers (to memory). These instructions are used less frequently than lw and sw.

Chapter Topics:

Load byte and store byte: lb, lbu, and sb
Load halfword and store halfword: lh, lhu, and sh
Arithmetic with less than 32 bits.

QUESTION 1:

(Review:) What is the smallest addressable unit of main memory?

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