Question

Computers use addressing mode techniques for ____________

(a) Giving programming versatility to the user by providing facilities as pointers to memory counters for loop control

(b) To reduce number of bits in the field of instruction

(c) Specifying rules for modifying or interpreting address field of the instruction

(d) All of the mentioned

The question was asked in examination.

I'd like to ask this question from Storage Allocation topic in portion Storage Management of Compiler

Answer 1

The correct choice is (d) All of the mentioned

To explain: All of these are addressing mode techniques.