Gujarat University
MCA Semester III
System Software
Date:4-1-1999 Marks:50
Instructions:
1. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
2. Symbols used have their usual meaning.
3. If necessary, make assumptions & state clearly.
4. Answers to each section must be written in separate answer-book.
Section I
Q-1 Attempt the following: [3]
a) What do you mean by system programming? Explain different types of system software in brief.
b) As assembler designer is presented with the following two design alternatives: [3]
1. Constitute a single OPTAB to contain entries for mnemonics of imperative, declarative and assembler directive statements of the assembly language.
2. Constitute three different tables to contain mnemonics of:
i) imperatives ii) declaratives and iii) assembler
Which of the two alternatives would you recommend to the designer? Clearly justify your answer.
c) Explain the major parts of Device- driver (Any two parts) [4]
Q-2 Attempt the following:
a) Discuss the problems encountered during the single pass assembly. [6]
b) Suppose an object module contains three programs A,B and C. If they are located at following addresses
Prog Address [4]
A 200-250
B 302-370
C 480-533
Assume the load address is 300 for the executable A, B and C to be generated.
Find: i) Load origin of each program
ii) Relocation factor for each program
c) Suppose ten users are using the UNIX system simultaneously. Discuss what happens when compiler is
stored in a system library as either of following form: [5]
i) As a non-relocatable program
ii) As a relocatable program
iii) As a self relocating program
OR
Q-2 Attempt the following:
a) Draw flow-chart or state the algorithm of PASS-I of the assembler and explain it. [9]
b) Write the advantages of overlay technique. [3]
c) Explain following assembler directives: [3]
i) ORIGIN ii) EQU iii) EXTERN
Section II
Q-3 Attempt the following:
a) In an assembly language program, a certain action is required at 10 places in the program. Under what
conditions would you code this action as [3]
i) A macro?
ii) A sub-routine?
b) Write the major difference of nested between top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing. [3]
c) Explain the expansion of nested macro call with example. [4]
Q-4 Attempt the following:
a) Discuss the lexical analysis & syntax analysis phase of a compiler. [5]
b) Write the differences between formal parameters, keyboard parameters and actual parameters. [3]
OR
Q-4 Attempt the following:
Write a macro which takes A,B, C and D as a parameters and calculates D =A*(B+C). By using this macro
generate data structure for it. [8]
Q-5 Attempt the following:
a) Write the classification of a grammar [3]
b) Explain the static and dynamic allocation with example. [4]
OR
Q-5 Attempt the following: [7]
Write advantages of block structured language. Explain allocation and access of local and non-local variable
for a block structured language.
