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RARS -- RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator
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can system call 51 (InputDialogInt) take a hex input? #213

Open jowens opened 5 months ago

jowens commented 5 months ago

Please forgive my non-knowledge of Java. In class I am using this simulator to teach RISC-V. Students input a value using system call 51 (InputDialogInt) at the start of an assembly program and then watch the simulator run the program with that input.

It is my understanding that this system call inputs a decimal number. For many test cases, students would appreciate the opportunity to instead input a hexadecimal number. Here's my understanding of what is happening:

If the first two characters of input are 0x, could they be removed and then result in a call like return SystemIO.readInteger(input[2:].trim(), 16)? Again, sorry, I don't know Java.