Masters of Computer Applications:System Programming

Introduction to System Software: Machine Structure, evolution of operating system, machine language.

Assembler: Elements of Assembly Language Programming, General design procedure, design of a Two Pass Assemblers, A Single Pass Assemblers Design.

Table Processing: Searching & Sorting.

Macro and Macro Processors: Macro instructions, Features of a macro Facility: macro Instruction arguments, Conditional macro expansion, Macro calls within macros, Macro instruction defining macros, Advanced Macro Facilities, Implementation of simple macro processor, Two-pass algorithm, Implementation of macro calls within macros, Implementation within an assembler.

Loaders: Loader scheme, absolute loaders, Subroutine linkages, Relocating loaders, Direct linking loaders, binders, linking loaders, overlays, Dynamic Binders, Design of an Absolute Loader, Design of a Direct-Linking Loader.

Compilers: Phases of Compiler Construction, Symbol Table, Top-down and bottom-up Parsing, Operator-Precedence Parsing, LR Parsers, Code Generation and Code Optimization, Memory management, Design & other issues.

Laboratory Work: Lab work will be based on the development of system software like assembler, Lexical Analyzer, Parser, macro processor, binder, linker, loader.