[ANSWERED] you will be implementing and performing operations on a simple virtual machine….

you will be implementing and performing operations on a simple virtual machine. You will need to emulate this virtual machine to store and reference variables and stack frame contexts before reading a set of pseudo assembly instructions that dictate the operations that should be performed on the stack. Your program will take a single command line argument being the path to the file containing your x2017 assembly code. Before attempting this assignment it would be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the stack, registers, stack frames, stack pointers, program counters, assembly and machine code. A strong understanding of these concepts is essential to completing this assignment. Section 3.6 and 3.7 of the course textbook provide specific detail to x86_64 architecture, however you can review these as a reference. In order to complete this assignment at a technical level you should revise your understanding of bitwise operations, file IO, pointers and arrays. Some implementation details are purposefully left ambiguous; you have the freedom to decide on the specifics yourself. Additionally this description does not define all possible behaviour that can be exhibited by the system; some error cases are not documented. You are expected to gracefully report and handle these errors yourself.
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