Computer Science 340
Programming Languages

Fall 2019, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Language Project [HTML] [PDF]
    • proposals are in
    • next deadline is progress reports on November 18
  • Problem Set 6: [HTML] [PDF] due tomorrow night
• More on Subprograms
• Starting on Lab 4: Callback Functions in C

Terminology

• in/out/inout modes
• subprogram linkage
• activation record
• frame pointer
• dynamic link address
• call by value
• access path
• call by reference
• call by result
• call by name
• overloaded subprogram
• function pointers
• callback function

Examples

• callbyref
• jensens
• overload
• pthreadhello

Links

• Wikipedia article "Jensen's Device"
• "Callback" on Wikipedia