What is base register?
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Answer / bala
Base Register is the register, acts as a address holder of
the base storage location from where the datas were stored
continuously. Assembler uses the Base register value to
find the data that is required.
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Answer / divya
base register is used to assign a relative address to all
instructions and storage areas. By adding the address in
the base register to the displacement of the instruction,
we can find the absolute address of the instruction.
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Answer / chanu
it stores the base address (starting address af a programm).
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Answer / ken paek
A register that holds an aboslute address from which the
address of other statement (instruction) or data storage
can be calculated. In other word, a general register from 3
to 12 when used for addressing purposes is called as a base
register.
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Answer / joseph louis pargas
A base register is any general purpose register chosen by
programmer. It is assigned at the beginning of the program
as part of housekeeping with the USING assembler keyword,
and it's purpose is to maintain addressibility within a
page (4k) of code or data.
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Answer / anil
Base register is used to make CSECT and data addressible in
the assembler program.
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Answer / yogesh deshmukh
when registers are used in the formation of address,then they are called as base registers
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Answer / liverpool
Base register also used for Automatic updating. In many
applications there is a great deal of data movement between
CPU and memory. Therefore it is very useful if the base
register(r11) is updated in each load or store.
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Answer / jobayer hossain
Base register serves as an address register; an example is a table look-up instruction called XLAT.
whom locate the address.
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