As shown on the class schedule, exam #2 will be held on Thursday, March
19 in class.  The usual rules apply---open book & notes, all answers on
exam copy.

Covered material will include topics up through Lecture #16 of March
17.

Some things particularly to review include:

* Alpha instructions and assembly code
* Stack frames, register usage
* Structure, union, and array allocations including alignment
constraints
* Pointer computations, array indexing, memory referencing
* Why compilers having trouble optimizing some types of code
* Benchmarking, reporting performance
* General principles of other instruction sets, e.g., the difference
between
  RISC & CISC

The exams from 1997 have a relevant problems.  Some are based on MIPS
rather than Alpha, but they'll give you a general feel for typical
problems.  Check out the following ones:

Exam #1: Problems 1, 3, 4, 8
Final: Problems 4, 12