A good answer might be:

The assembler will not catch this mistake, and the program will run to completion. However, the second print method call writes an incorrect value to the screen.

No Type Checking

This type of mistake often happens when programming in "C" where type checking is weak. Sometimes the wrong type can be passed to a function (such as printf) and odd things happen. Here is the output of the program:

Compilers that keep track of the data types of values and that make sure that the correct types are used as arguments do strong type checking. Java is strongly typed. In assembly language type checking is largely absent.

QUESTION 11:

The first line of output shows the 32 bits interpretted as a single precision floating point value. Is this output correct? (Hint: look at the program on the previous page).