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1 CIVL: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language
2 v 0.7
3
4------------------------------ Overview -------------------------------
5
6CIVL is a framework encompassing...
7
8 * a programming language, CIVL-C, which adds to C a number of
9 concurrency primitives, as well as the ability to define
10 functions in any scope. Together, these features make for
11 a very expressive concurrent language that can faithfully
12 represent programs using various APIs and parallel languages,
13 such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and Chapel. CIVL-C also provides
14 a number of primitives supporting verification.
15 * a model checker which uses symbolic execution to verify a
16 number of safety properties of CIVL-C programs. The model
17 checker can also be used to verify that two CIVL-C programs
18 are functionally equivalent.
19 * a number of translators from various commonly-used languages
20 and APIs to CIVL-C. (This part is still a work in progress.)
21
22CIVL is developed by the Verified Software Laboratory at the
23University of Delaware Department of Computer Science.
24For more information, visit http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl
25
26Developers:
27
28Stephen F. Siegel
29Timothy K. Zirkel
30Manchun Zheng
31Ziqing Luo
32
33------------------------------- License -------------------------------
34
35CIVL is open source software distributed under the GNU
36General Public License. However, the libraries used by CIVL
37(and incorporated into the complete distribution) use various
38licenses. See directory licenses for the license of each component.
39
40-------------------------- Updates from v 0.6 -------------------------
41
421. A new system function is supported: $comm_add(*comm comm, $proc q, int rank),
43 allowing one process to add another process q into the communicator comm.
44 Refer to examples/messagePassing/hybrid.cvl for more details.
45
462. A new partial order reduction algorithm is implemented and performance gets
47 improved greatly.
48
49------------------------- Binary Installation -------------------------
50
51For most users, this will be the easiest way to install and use CIVL.
52
531. Install a Java 7 SDK if you have not already. Go to
54http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ for the
55latest from Oracle. On linux, you can optionally sudo apt-get install
56openjdk-7-jdk.
57
582. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
59skip this step. Otherwise, download the archive of VSL
60dependencies from http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend,
61choosing the version for your OS type (32-bit linux,
6264-bit linux, or 64-bit OS X). Unzip and untar the
63downloaded .tgz file and you will have a folder named "vsl".
64If you do not already have a directory /opt, create one with
65"mkdir /opt". Move vsl into /opt. Use sudo as needed.
66
673. Download the appropriate CIVL distribution from
68http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl.
69
704. Unzip and untar the downloaded file if this does not happen
71automatically. This should result in a folder named
72CIVL-TAG, where TAG is some version id string. This folder
73contains the following:
74
75 - README : this file
76 - bin : containing one executable sh script called "civl"
77 - lib : containing civl-TAG.jar
78 - doc : containing the manual and the tutorial of CIVL
79 - licenses : licenses for CIVL and included libraries
80 - examples : some example CIVL programs
81
825. Move CIVL-TAG into /opt.
83
846. Put the civl script in your path however you like to put things
85in your path. Either move it to a directory in your path,
86or create a symlink to it, or edit your .profile or equivalent
87to put it in your path.
88
89------------------------- Source Installation -------------------------
90
91We recommend using the Eclipse IDE for Java/EE developers.
92
931. Install prerequisite projects ABC, SARL and GMC.
94 Make sure that the three projects are put in the workspace
95 directory where CIVL will be put.
96
97 a. Install the C front-end ABC. In Eclipse,
98 select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
99 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/abc. After entering that, open it
100 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
101 the project "ABC". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
102 file for Eclipse installation. Build the abc.jar from within
103 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking on OS X) on the
104 build.xml file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
105
106 b. Install the symbolic algebra and reasoning library SARL.
107 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
108 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/sarl. After entering that, open it
109 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
110 the project "SARL". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
111 file for Eclipse installation. Build the sarl.jar from within
112 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml
113 file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
114
115 c. Install the generic model checking utilities package GMC.
116 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
117 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/gmc. After entering that, open it
118 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
119 the project "GMC". Build the gmc.jar from within Eclipse
120 by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml file and
121 selecting Run As->Ant Build.
122
1232. From within Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN. The archive is
124svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl. After entering that, open it up and
125select the "trunk". (It is simplest to just check out the trunk for
126the Eclipse project.)
127
1283. Check out the trunk, and create the project using the New Java
129Project Wizard as usual, naming it "CIVL". The .project, .classpath,
130and other Eclipse meta-data are already in the SVN archive, saving you
131a bunch of work.
132
1334. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
134skip this step.
135
136Download the tgz archive of VSL dependencies from
137 http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend,
138 choosing the right .tgz according to your platform:
139
140 vsl_linux32-1.0.tgz - 32-bit linux
141 vsl_linux64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit linux
142 vsl_osx64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit osx
143
144 Unzip the .tgz file and you will have the folder vsl.
145 Move vsl to /opt (you might need to use sudo for this.
146 Also, if you don't already have a directory called /opt,
147 you will have to create it with mkdir /opt).
148
149 Suppose that you put the .tgz file (or .tar file if your browser
150 unzipped it automatically to a .tar file) in the directory $Download.
151 You can use the following commands:
152
153 $ cd $Download
154 $ tar xzf YourTgzOrTarFile vsl
155 $ sudo mv vsl /opt
156
157 Now you can type "ls /opt/vsl", and the output should be
158
159 README.txt lib licenses src
160
1615. Create a file build.properties in the directory where build.xml is in.
162 Copy and paste the content from properties/build.properties.osx or
163 properties/build.properties.linux depending on your platform.
164 If your workspace directory is the default setting of Eclipse,
165 i.e., HOME/Documents/workspace for osx or HOME/workspace for linux,
166 then you dont have to anything.
167 Otherwise, you need to edit the entry "workspace" to point to the
168 corresponding directory where you put the projects ABC, SARL and GMC.
169
1706. Navigate to Preferences -> Java -> Build Path -> ClassPath
171 Variables, and then select New to create a classpath variable VSL,
172 and specify its value to be /opt/vsl. Navigate to Preferences -> Run/Debug
173 -> String Substitution -> New, and then define an entry vsl_lib and
174 set its value to be /opt/vsl/lib.
175
1767. Do a clean build. Everything should compile. Generate the civl.jar
177 by right-clicking (or ctrl-click on OS X) the build.xml file and
178 Run As->Ant Build.
179
1808. Go to Run->Run Configurations... Create a new JUnit configuration.
181 Name it CIVL Tests. Select "Run all tests in the selected project..."
182 and navigate to the folder "test" in the CIVL project.
183 The Test runner should be JUnit 4. Under the Arguments tab, type
184 "-ea" (without the quotes) in the VM arguments area (to enable assertion
185 checking). Under the Environment tab, create an entry
186 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (OS X) or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (linux),
187 specify its value by clicking Variables and choose vsl_lib from the list,
188 or you may type ${vsl_lib} in the value entry.
189
1909. An example of how to set up a single test from within Eclipse:
191 create a new Run Configuration via the Run->Run
192 Configurations... menu. Create a new "Java Application"
193 configuration. Call it "CIVL barrier2". The Project is CIVL. The
194 main class is edu.udel.cis.vsl.civl.CIVL. Under the Arguments tab,
195 set the Program arguments to "examples/barrier2.cvl" (without the
196 quotes). Modify the VM arguments and the Environment as in the step
197 above. You should now be able to run the test by clicking "Run".
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