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System Software Unit 6: Macro Processor Book: System Software, 3 Edition, Pearson Education by Leland L. Beck & Dhanabalachandran Manjula

This document discusses macro processors and defines key concepts related to macros such as macro definition, invocation, parameters, and expansion. It provides examples of macros in assembly language code and explains features of macro processors like recursive macro expansion, conditional assembly, and general purpose macro processors that can be used with different programming languages.

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System Software Unit 6: Macro Processor Book: System Software, 3 Edition, Pearson Education by Leland L. Beck & Dhanabalachandran Manjula

This document discusses macro processors and defines key concepts related to macros such as macro definition, invocation, parameters, and expansion. It provides examples of macros in assembly language code and explains features of macro processors like recursive macro expansion, conditional assembly, and general purpose macro processors that can be used with different programming languages.

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SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Unit 6: MACRO PROCESSOR

Book: System Software, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education

By Leland L. Beck & Dhanabalachandran Manjula

1) Define
i) Macro or Macro instruction.
ii) Prototype of a macro.
iii) Macro invocation or Macro call.
iv) Parameters.
v) Arguments.
vi) Expanding of a macro.
Identify the above in the piece of SIC/XE code below:
COPY START 0
RDBUFF MACRO &INDEV, &BUFADR, &RECLTH
CLEAR X
CLEAR A
CLEAR S
.
.
.
STX &RECLTH
MEND
.
. MAIN PROGRAM

FIRST STL RETADR.


CLOOP RDBUFF F1, BUFFER, LENGTH
.
.
.
END
2) Explain with an example, the macro definition and expansion.
3) Is it possible to define macros within the body of another macro? If yes how many
passes are required to process such macros using a macro processor? Justify your
answer with an example.
4) Which is the datastructure in macro processor algorithm that is used only during the
macro invocation? Also explain the other datastructures used in the algorithm.
5) Explain the algorithm for one pass macro processor.
6) Give the machine independent features of macro processor. Explain any one of those
features.
7) Consider a program consisting of two series of variables named by the symbols XA1,
XA2, XA3, . . . , and XB1, XB2, XB3, ... ,etc. and that there is a macro defined for some
processing on these series of the variables above. In this case which macro processor
feature would you make use of and see that a single macro is used to process both of the
series of variables? Explain
8) What is the disadvantage of implicitly specifying labels in macros? How is it overcome?
Explain.
9) What is the disadvantage of specifying the jumps using relative addressing in a macro?
How is it overcome? Explain with example.
10) What feature of macro processor allows modifying the sequence of statements generated
for a macro expansion, depending on the arguments supplied to macro invocation?
Explain with example.
11) Is it possible to use looping constructs in macros? If yes explain the macro-time looping
statements.
12) Which is macro processor function that returns as its value the number of members in an
argument list?
13) What are positional parameters? Is this type of specifying parameters suitable when
there are a large number of parameters? Explain.
14) How is the method of specifying parameters using Keyword Macro Parameters
advantageous over that of positional parameters? Explain with example.
15) How are recursive macro expansions handled by macro processor? Explain with an
example the various procedures and data structures used in such macro expansion.
16) What kinds of languages are preferred to implement recursive macro expansion?
17) Explain the need for General-Purpose macro processors. Why is it difficult to
implement General-Purpose macro processors?
18) Which method is used for combining the macro processing with the language
translator? Explain such a macro processor.
19) Is it possible to have closer cooperation between the macro processor and assembler or
compiler? If yes, what scheme is used for this? Explain such a macro processor.
20) What are Line-by-Line and Integrated Macro Processors? What are their advantages and
disadvantages?
21) What are the various implementations of macro processors available? Explain any one.
22) Explain with example, conditional assembly in MASM Macro Processor.
23) Explain the various macro processing features of the ANSI C programming language.
24) Give an example for general purpose Macro Processor. Explain the same.
25) Explain the usage of the Elena Macro Processor with different languages.
26) Explain the various macro-time variables and macro-time instructions in Elena Macro
Processor with example.
27) Explain the macro invocation and expansion in Elena Macro Processor.

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