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Give a special entrance for the case \begin_inset Formula $r=1$ \end_inset . List the characteristics of your subroutine, as in (4). \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash answer \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset listings inline false status open \begin_layout Plain Layout MAXIMUM ENT1 1 \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout MAXMOD STJ 9F \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout JMP 2F \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout 1H CMPA X,3 \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout JGE 3F \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout 2H ENT2 0,3 \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout LDA X,3 \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout 3H DEC3 0,1 \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout J3P 1B \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout 9H JMP * \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ \left.\begin{array}{ll} \text{Calling sequences:} & \text{\texttt{JMP MAXIMUM} if \ensuremath{r=1}, or \texttt{JMP MAXMOD}}.\\ \text{Entry conditions:} & \text{rI3}=n;\text{ for \texttt{MAXMOD}, }\text{rI1}=r;\ n,r\geq1.\\ \text{Exit conditions:} & \text{rA}=\max_{k=1}^{\lfloor(n-1)/r\rfloor}\mathtt{CONTENTS(X}+n-kr\mathtt{)}=\mathtt{CONTENTS(X}+\text{rI2}\mathtt{)};\\ & \text{rI3}\leq0. \end{array}\right\} \] \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash rexerc7[20] \end_layout \end_inset Why is self-modifying code now frowned upon? \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash answer \end_layout \end_inset Modern computers have separate instruction and data caches for efficiency, and typically several instructions are being processed at once, so modifying one of these instructions means emptying the instruction cache and pipeline, severely degrading performance. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard These computers also support a security measure that works by preventing pieces of code intended to be executed from being written to, in order to avoid attackers executing code by overriding some buffer due to a bug in the application, and self-modifying code would need to have that protection disabled. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Third, typically these computers are running several processes or threads which may share code, and if the code is self-modifying we would need to keep several copies of it, which wastes memory. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Finally, self-modifying code is difficult to reason about unless it is restricted to a few well known patterns, but these patterns can be easily replaced by constructions like stacks which do not suffer from the problems above and allow techniques like recursion. \end_layout \end_body \end_document