Chapter 9 & 10 review questions

What are the three general characteristics of subprograms?
What does it mean for a subprogram to be active?
What is given in the header of a subprogram?
What languages allow a variable number of parameters?
What is a parameter profile?
What is a subprogram protocol?
What are formal parameters?
What are actual parameters?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of keyword parameters?
What are the differences between a function and a procedure in the imperative paradigm?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of dynamic local variables?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of static local variables?
What languages allow subprogram definitions to be nested?
What are the three semantics models of parameter passing?
What are the modes, the conceptual models of transfer, the advantages, and the disadvantages of pass-by-value, pass-by-result, pass-by-value-result, and pass-by-reference parameter-passing methods?
Describe the ways that aliases can occur with pass-by-reference parameters.
What are two fundamental design considerations for parameter-passing methods?
What is the difference between an activation record and an activation record instance?
Why are the return address, dynamic link, and parameters placed in the bottom of the activation record?
State a reason against providing static and dynamic local variables in subprograms.
State a reason against the use of pass by name parameters

Chapter 9: problems 5,7

Chapter 10: problems 1-4.