Task $2$: The Maximum of an Array

The second task is to write $($in Assembly x$86-64)$ the function:

unsigned long array$\_$max$($unsigned long n$,$ unsigned long $*$items$)$

This function will return the maximum value of an array of long integers $>=0.$ The first argument provided is the number of elements, the second argument is the address of the first element.

You do not need to write a C version of this function, but we recommend doing so$.$

We have provided the driver program in array$-$max$-$main.c$,$ which processes the command line arguments and calls the array$\_$max function. The Makefile will compile both array$-$max$-$main.c and your implementation of the array$\_$max function to produce the executable array$-$max. Once compiled, the interactions with array$-$max should look as follows:

$ $./$array$-$max $12$

$2$

$ $./$array$-$max $421$

$42$

$ $./$array$-$max $3158248201$

$20$

Your program must compile without any modification to the provided array$-$max$-$main.c file, using the provided Makefile. The command make array$-$max will combine array$-$max$-$main.c $($provided by us$)$ and array$-$max.s $($written by you$)$ into the executable array$-$max.