Question

1. The program counter is a 16-bit storage area reserved for
a) Addresses
b) Instructions
c) data
d) none of theses​

Answer 1

Answer:

data

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The program counter is a 16 bit storage area reserved for addresses.

- A program counter is largely a register in processor, it contains address ie location of instruction.

- These instructions are executed at current time.

- The program counter increases its stored value by 1 when instruction gets fetched.

- There are certain instructions that affect the program counter they are call and jump, call and return, return and jump, push and pop.

- Program counter has size of machine word ie 32,64 bits.