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1972

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McGraw-Hill

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488

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Table of Contents

Preface

Page xiii

Acknowledgements

Page xvi

Note to the Student

Page xviii

1. Machine Structure

2. Evolution of the Components of a Programming System

5. Formal Systems

3. Evolution of Operating Systems

4. Operating System User Viewpoint: Functions

5. Operating System User Viewpoint: Batch Control Language

6. Operating System User Viewpoint: Facilities

2. Machine Structure, Machine Language, and Assembly Language

1. General Machine Structure

1. General Approach to a New Machine

2. Machine Structure—360 and 370

4. Instructions

5. Special Features

2. Machine Language

1. Long Way, No Looping

2. Address Modification Using Instructions as Data

3. Address Modification Using Index Registers

3. Assembly Language

1. An Assembly Language Program

2. Example Using Literals

1. General Design Procedure

2. Design of Assembler

1. Statement of Problem

2. Data Structure

3. Format of Data Bases

5. Look for Modularity

3. Table Processing: Searching and Sorting

1. Linear Search

2. Binary Search

1. Interchange Sort

4. Radix Exchange Sort

5. Address Calculation Sort

6. Comparison of Sorts

4. Hash or Random Entry Searching

4. Macro Language and the Macro Processor

1. Macro Instructions

2. Features of a Macro Facility

1. Macro Instruction Arguments

2. Conditional Macro Expansion

3. Macro Calls within Macros

4. Macro Instructions Defining Macros

3. Implementation

1. Implementation of a Restricted Facility: A Two-Pass Algorithm

2. A Single-Pass Algorithm

3. Implementation of Macro Calls within Macros

4. Implementation within an Assembler

1. Loader Schemes

1. "Compile-and-Go" Loaders

2. General Loader Scheme

3. Absolute Loaders

4. Subroutine Linkages

5. Relocating Loaders

6. Direct-Linking Loaders

7. Other Loader Schemes: Binders, Linking Loaders, Overlays, Dynamic Binders

2. Design of an Absolute Loader

3. Design of a Direct-Linking Loader

1. Specification of Problem

2. Specification of Data Structures

3. Format of Data Bases

6. Programming Languages

1. Importance of High Level Languages

2. Features of a High Level Language

3. Data Types and Data Structures

1. Character String

2. Bit String — Boolean

3. Data Structures

4. Storage Allocation and Scope of Names

1. Storage Classes

2. Block Structure

5. Accessing Flexibility

2. Label Variables and Label Arrays

6. Functional Modularity

7. Asynchronous Operation

3. Multitasking

8. Extensibility and Compile-Time Macros

9. Miscellaneous

7. Formal Systems and Programming Languages: An Introduction

1. Uses of Formal Systems in Programming Languages

1. Language Specification

2. Syntax-Directed Compilers

3. Complexity Structure Studies

4. Structure Analysis

2. Formal Specification

1. Approaching a Formalism

2. Development of Formal Specification

3. Formal Grammars

1. Examples of Formal Grammars

2. The Derivation of Sentences

3. Sentential Forms and Sentences

4. Hierarchy of Languages

5. Backus-Naur Form — Backus Normal Form (BNF)

6. Canonic Systems

1. Example: Syntax Specification

2. Specification of Translation

3. Recognition and Translation Algorithm

7. Canonic Systems and Formal Systems

1. Statement of Problem

1. Problem No. 1 — Recognizing Basic Elements

2. Problem No. 2 — Recognizing Syntactic Units and Interpreting Meaning

3. Intermediate Form

1. Arithmetic Statements

2. Nonarithmetic Statements

3. Nonexecutable Statements

4. Problem No. 3 — Storage Allocation

5. Problem No. 4 — Code Generation

1. Optimization (Machine-Independent)

2. Optimization (Machine-Dependent)

3. Assembly Phase

6. General Model of Compiler

2. Phases of the Compiler

1. Lexical Phase

2. Syntax Phase

3. Interpretation Phase

4. Optimization

5. Storage Assignment

6. Code Generation

7. Assembly Phase

8. Passes of a Compiler

3. Data Structures

1. Statement of Problem

2. Implementation

4. Recursion, Call, and Return Statements

5. Storage Classes — Use

1. Static Storage

2. Automatic Storage

3. Internal Controlled Storage

4. External Controlled Storage

5. Based Storage

6. Implementation

1. Static Storage

2. Automatic Storage

3. Controlled and Based Storage

7. Block Structure

1. Accessing Information for Block Structure

2. Storage Allocation for Block Structure

8. Nonlocal Go To's

9. Operating Systems

1. I/O Programming: Multiple Processors and Interrupt Mechanisms

1. Evolution of Multiple Processor System

2. I/O Programming

3. I/O Processor Structure

4. Examples of I/O Programs

5. Communications between the CPU and the Channel

6. Interrupt Structure and Processing

7. Example of I/O Interrupt Processing

8. Multiple Processors

2. Memory Management

1. Single Contiguous Allocations

2. Partitioned Allocation

3. Relocatable Partitioned Allocation

4. Paged Allocation

5. Demand Paged Allocation

6. Segmented Allocation

7. Segmented-Paged Allocation

3. Processor Management

2. Traffic Controller

3. Race Condition

5. Multiprocessor Systems

4. Device Management

1. Device Characteristics

2. Device Management Techniques

5. Information Management

1. Development of File Systems

2. Structure of a General File System

3. Example of a File System

4. Features of a General File System

5. General File System Model Revisited

6. Segmentation

7. MULTICS File System and the General Model

10. Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading

Appendix A. 360 Specification

Appendix B. Linkage Conventions

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 441-450.

Published in: New York
Series: McGraw-Hill computer science series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 001.6/42
Library of Congress: QA76.6 .D65

The Physical Object

Pagination: xviii, 488 p.
Number of pages: 488

Edition Identifiers

Open Library: OL4469004M
Internet Archive: systemsprogrammi00don_xk6
ISBN 10: 0070176035
LCCN: 79172263
OCLC/WorldCat: 298763
LibraryThing: 532953

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