UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester IV - Paper VI - CS218 - Systems Software

Lecture Lab: 4
Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 75
Credits: 3

Unit - I:

Language processors - Language processing activities and fundamentals - Language specification - Development Tools - Data Structures for Language processing- Scanners and Parsers.

Unit - II:

Assemblers: Elements of Assembly language programming - Overview of the Assembly process - Design of a Tow-pass Assembler - A single pass Assembler for the IBM PC.

Unit - III:

Macros and Macro processors - Macro definition, call, and expansion - Nested macro calls - Advanced macro facilities - Design of a macro preprocessor - Compilers: Aspects of compilation.

Unit - IV:

Compilers and Interpreters - Memory allocation Compilation of Expressions and Control structures - Code optimization - Interpreters.

Unit - V:

Linkers : Linking and Relocation concepts - Design of a linker - Self relocating Programs - A linker for MS DOS - Linking for over-lays - loaders Software tools: Software tools for program development - Editors - Debug monitors - Programming environments - User interfaces.

Text:

1. D.M. Dhamdhere, Systems Programming and Operating Systems, Second Revised Edition, Tata McGrawhill Publ. Company 1999.

References:

1. L.L. Beck, "System Software, An Introduction to System Programming", Addison-Wesley, 1985.