Exam 10: Control II - Procedures and Environments

The group of actions in a procedure is called the ____ of the procedure.

Reference counting is a form of ____.

A procedure communicates with its calling environment through ____.

The local variable ____ stores the distance from the environment pointer.

Pass by name can be described as an advanced inlining process for procedures.

Procedures were first introduced when memory was scarce,as a way of splitting a program into small,separately compiled pieces.

When parameters are passed by value,the arguments are expressions that are evaluated at the time of the call,with the arguments' values becoming the values of the parameters during the execution of the procedure.

Pass by reference is also known as copy-restore.

A procedure is a mechanism for abstracting a group of actions or computations.

The process of joining a block of free memory with immediately adjacent blocks to form a larger contiguous block of free memory is called ____.

The pointer to the previous activation record is the ____ link.

Another name for activation record is stack record.

Pass by value-result is also known as copy-in,copy-out.

Historically,the interpretation of pass by name arguments as functions to be evaluated was expressed by referring to them as ____.

An activation of a block cannot communicate with the rest of the program.

A call to a procedure transfers control to the beginning of the body of the called procedure.

A ____ is a mechanism in programming for abstracting a group of actions or computations.

If the parameter becomes an alias for the argument,the parameter is passed ____.

A procedure communicates with the rest of the program through its parameters and through ____.

The ____ determines the allocation of memory.