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Question 20

A firmware developer is writing high-performance control code for an autonomous drone's stabilization unit. Instead of writing the program directly in raw binary machine code, the developer decides to write the program in assembly language using mnemonics (such as MOV, ADD, and CMP).

State one advantage to the developer of writing the code using assembly language mnemonics rather than direct binary machine code.

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Programming languages Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Programming languages

41 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Programming languages, covering Low-level and high-level languages and Interpreters versus compilers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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