Chapter 5. PROCEDURES AND UNITS
In a procedural programming language, the basic unit of code is the procedure. A procedure is a set of instructions that compute some value or take some action (such as printing or reading a character value). This chapter discusses how HLA implements procedures. It begins by discussing HLA's high-level syntax for procedure declarations and invocations, but it also describes the low-level implementation of procedures at the machine level. At this point, you should be getting comfortable with assembly language programming, so it's time to start presenting "pure" assembly language rather than continuing to rely on HLA's ...
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