Please answer ALL questions and ALL parts or none at all. Thank you in advance.
5.I Consider sending a message containing a string of integers over the Internet. What problems may occur if the sending and receiving machines have different "endian-ness"? How might you solve these problems? 5.2 What is the largest positive number in 32-bit two's complement arithmetic? What is the smallest (largest magnitude) negative number? Why are these numbers not the additive inverse of each other? 5.3 (a) Express the decimal number 1234 in hexadecimal. (b) Express the unsigned hexadecimal number 02ae in decimal. 5.7 Exercises C101 (c) Interpret the hexadecimal bit pattern 0xffd9 as a 16-bit 2's complement number. What is its decimal value? (d) Suppose that n is a negative integer represented as a k-bit 2 's complement bit pattern. If we reinterpret this bit pattern as an unsigned number, what is its numeric value as a function of n and k ? 5.4 What will the following C code print on a little-endian machine like the x86 ? What will it print on a big-endian machine? unsigned short n=01234;//16 bits unsigned char p= (unsigned char ) la; 5.5 (a) Suppose we have a machine with hardware support for 8-bit integers. What is the decimal value of 110110012, interpreted as ansigned quantity? As a signed, two's complement quantify? What is its two's complement additive inverse? (b) What is the 8-bit binary sum of 110110012 and 100100012 ? Does this sum result in overflow if we interpret the addends as unsigned numbers? As signed two's complement numbers? 5.6 In Section C-5.2.1 we observed that overflow occurs in two's complement addition when we add two non-negative numbers and obtain an apparently negative result, or add two negative numbers and obtain an apparently nonnegative result. Prove that it is equivalent to say that a two's complement addition operation overflows if and only if the carry into most significant place differs from the carry out of most significant place. (This trivial check is the one typically performed in hardware.)