5.63 · exercise

Vending machine brain

A snack machine sells one thing for 75 cents. It takes nickels (5), dimes (10), quarters (25), loonies (100) and toonies (200), and hands anything else straight back. Pulling the return lever, input 0, gives back whatever credit is in the machine.

The starter's main reads the inputs one at a time, calls coin(value) for each, and prints a summary at the end. Write coin. The machine's memory, the credit so far and the number of snacks sold, lives in the .bss words credit and sold, not in registers, so it lasts from one call to the next: coin loads what it needs, updates it, and stores it back.

Each input prints exactly one line:

  • a value it does not take: rejected v, and the credit is unchanged
  • the return lever: returned c, and the credit goes back to 0
  • a coin that leaves the credit under 75: credit c
  • a coin that brings the credit to 75 or more: vend! change c, where c is the credit minus 75; the credit goes back to 0 and sold goes up by 1

The starter's input prints:

credit 25
credit 35
credit 60
credit 70
vend! change 0
sold 1, holding 0

coin calls printf, so it needs a frame, and any of x19 to x28 it uses must be saved and restored.

What is checked

  • the lines above
  • the program exits with status 0
  • the same checks on other inputs the checker keeps hidden: exactly 75 cents, a toonie, rejected values (a negative one too), the lever on an empty machine, and no input at all
  • the state is written back to memory (str)

specification

stdin25 10 25 10 5
stdoutprints the right output
exitexits with the right code
sourceuses str
hiddenright output and exit code on 4 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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