![DEFAULT SPECIFICATIONS OF PARAMETERS
A default value is a standard assumption in the absence of an explicit
specification by the programmer.
Default specification of parameters is useful in situations where a parameter
has the same value in most calls.
When the desired value is different from the default value, the desired value
can be specified explicitly in a macro call.
The syntax for formal parameter specification, as follows:
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System software - macro expansion,nested macro calls
- 1. System Software Chapter – 3 1. Macro expansion 2.nested macro calls
- 2. MACRO EXPANSION: The use of a macro name with a set of actual parameters is replaced by some code generated from its body. This is called macro expansion .
- 3. Macro expansion can be performed by two kinds of language processor Macro assembler Macro pre-processor MACRO ASSEMBLER: Its performs expansion of a each macro call in a program into a sequence of assembly language statements and also assembles the resultant assembly language program. MACRO PRE-PROCESSOR: It only processes the macro call. Other statements are processes with the help of assembler.
- 4. EXAMPLE FOR EXAPANSION MACRO DEFINITION EXPANSIONOF MACRO Label field A ,B , AREG are an actual parameters. &MEM_VAL, &INC_VAL,® are formal parameters.
- 5. Two key notions concerning macro expansion are A. Expansion time control flow : This determines the order in which model statements are visited during macro expansion. B. Lexical substitution: Lexical substitution is used to generate an assembly statement from a model statement.
- 6. A. Flow of control during expansion The default flow of control during macro expansion is sequential. In the absence of preprocessor statements, the model statements of a macro are visited sequentially starting with the statement following the macro prototype statement and ending with the statement preceding the MEND statement.
- 7. What can alter the flow of control during expansion? o A pre-processor statement can alter the flow of control during expansion such that o Conditional Expansion: Some model statements are either never visited during expansion, or Expansion Time Loops: are repeatedly visited during expansion. o The flow of control during macro expansion is implemented using a macro expansion counter (MEC)
- 8. ALGORITHM (MACRO EXPANSION) 1. MEC:=statement number of first statement following the prototype statement. 2. While statement pointed by MEC is not a MEND statement. a. If a model statement then i. Expand the statement ii. MEC:=MEC+1; b. Else (i.e. a preprocessor statement) i. MEC:= new value specified in the statement. 3. Exit from macro expansion.
- 9. B. LEXICAL SUBSTITUTION A model statement consists of 3 types of strings. An ordinary string, which stands for itself. The name of a formal parameter which is preceded by the character „&‟. The name of a pre-processor variable, which is also preceded by the character „&‟. During lexical expansion, strings is retained in its original form . The name of Formal parameter is replaced by its value from the actual parameter of a macro call. The name of pre-processor variable is replaced with its value. This value is readily known to the pre-processor.
- 10. Rules for determining the value of a formal parameter depends on the kind of parameter: Positional Parameter Keyword Parameter Default specification of parameters Macros with mixed parameter list Other uses of parameter
- 11. POSITIONAL PARAMETERS A positional formal parameter is written as &<parameter name> e.g. &SAMPLE where SAMPLE is the name of parameter. <parameter kind> of syntax rule is omitted. The value of a positional formal parameter XYZ is determined by the rule of positional association as follows: 1. Find the ordinal position of XYZ in the list of formal parameters in the macro prototype statement. 2. Find the actual parameter specification occupying the same ordinal position in the list of actual parameters in the macro call statement.
- 12. Consider the call INCR A,B,AREG On macro INCR , following rule of positional association, values of formal parameters are: Formal parameter value MEM_VAL A INCR_VAL B REG AREG Lexical expansion of the model statements now leads to the code + MOVER AREG, A + ADD AREG, B + MOVEM AREG, A MACRO INCR &MEM_VAL,&INCR_VAL ® MOVER ®, &MEM_VAL ADD ®, &INCR_VAL MOVEM ®, &MEM_VAL MEND Consider the macro
- 13. KEYWORD PARAMETER For keyword parameter, <parameter name> is an ordinary string and <parameter kind> is the string „=‟ in syntax rule. The <actual parameter spec> is written as<formal parameter name>=<ordinary string>. Note that the ordinal position of the specification XYZ=ABC in the list of actual parameters is immaterial. This is very useful in situations where long lists of parameters have to be used. Let us see example for it.
- 14. Following are macro call statement: INCR_M MEM_VAL=A, INCR_VAL=B, REG=AREG ------ INCR_M INCR_VAL=B, REG=AREG, MEM_VAL=A Both are equivalent. Following is macro definition using keyword parameter: MACRO INCR_M &MEM_VAL=, &INCR_VAL=,®= MOVER ®, &MEM_VAL ADD ®, &INCR_VAL MOVEM ®,&MEM_
- 15. DEFAULT SPECIFICATIONS OF PARAMETERS A default value is a standard assumption in the absence of an explicit specification by the programmer. Default specification of parameters is useful in situations where a parameter has the same value in most calls. When the desired value is different from the default value, the desired value can be specified explicitly in a macro call. The syntax for formal parameter specification, as follows: &<parameter name> [<parameter kind> [<default value>]]
- 16. EXAMPLE MACRO INCR_D &MEM_VAL=, &INCR_VAL=, ®=AREG MOVER ®, &MEM_VAL ADD ®, &INCR_VAL MOVEM ®, &MEM_VAL MEND The macro can be redefined to use a default specification for the parameter REG INCR_D MEM_VAL=A, INCR_VAL=B INCR_D INCR_VAL=B, MEM_VAL=A INCR_D INCR_VAL=B, MEM_VAL=A, REG=BREG First two calls are equivalent but third call overrides the default value for REG with the value BREG in next example.
- 17. MACROS WITH MIXED PARAMETER LISTS A macro may be defined to use both positional and keyword parameters. In such a case, all positional parameters must precede all keyword parameters. example in the macro call SUM A, B, G=20, H=X A, B are positional parameters while G, H are keyword parameters. Correspondence between actual and formal parameters is established by applying the rules governing positional and keyword parameters separately.
- 18. OTHER USES OF PARAMETERS The model statements have used formal parameters only in operand field. However, use of parameters is not restricted to these fields. Formal parameters can also appear in the label and opcode fields of model statements.
- 19. NESTED MACRO CALLS A model statement in a macro may constitute a call on another macro. Such calls are known as nested macro calls. Macro containing the nested call is the outer macro and, Macro called is inner macro. They follow LIFO rule. Thus, in structure of nested macro calls, expansion of latest macro call (i.e inner macro) is completed first.
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