5.39 · exercise

Morse code translator

Turn the words on the command line into Morse code. The starter already holds the code for every letter: 26 strings, and a table morse of 26 pointers to them in alphabet order, eight bytes each (.dword). The args box holds hello world. Change it and press run to try other words; check always uses hello world.

For each word from argv[1] on, walk its bytes with ldrb until the zero byte that ends it. Turn each letter into a table index ('a' is 0, 'z' is 25, and a capital counts the same as its lower-case letter), load the pointer at that index, and print the string it points to with %s. Anything that is not a letter prints ?.

Spacing matters, because the output is compared exactly:

  • one space between the letters of a word
  • / between words
  • a newline at the very end
  • with no words at all, print nothing to send on its own line and return 1 from main

So hello world prints .... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -...

What is checked

  • the Morse line for hello world (the args shown in the specification), and for more arguments you cannot see
  • the exit status (0 after a message, 1 with nothing to send)
  • the words are read byte by byte (ldrb)

specification

argshello world
stdoutprints the right output
exitexits with the right code
sourceuses ldrb
hiddenright output and exit code on 5 more inputs you do not see

We run your program on the input above and on the hidden ones, and compare what it does. Nothing is matched against a stored solution.

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regfile

N clearZ clearC clearV clear

x0–x30 are the integer registers.

X0arg00x0000000000000000
X1arg10x0000000000000000
X2arg20x0000000000000000
X3arg30x0000000000000000
X4arg40x0000000000000000
X5arg50x0000000000000000
X6arg60x0000000000000000
X7arg70x0000000000000000
X8ind0x0000000000000000
X90x0000000000000000
X100x0000000000000000
X110x0000000000000000
X120x0000000000000000
X130x0000000000000000
X140x0000000000000000
X150x0000000000000000
X16ip00x0000000000000000
X17ip10x0000000000000000
X18pr0x0000000000000000
X190x0000000000000000
X200x0000000000000000
X210x0000000000000000
X220x0000000000000000
X230x0000000000000000
X240x0000000000000000
X250x0000000000000000
X260x0000000000000000
X270x0000000000000000
X280x0000000000000000
X29fp0x0000000000000000
X30lr0x0000000000000000
SP0x0000000080000000
PC0x0000000000400000
console

Output prints here as your program runs.

Press step or run under the editor, or feed stdin from the box below.

not assembled

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