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1 CIVL: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language
2 v 0.10
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 0.9 -------------------------
411. Fix several bugs: checking illegal access of variables declared with
42 input or output qualifier; checking illegal format when calling the
43 function printf; fixing a bug in getting concrete value
44 from the path condition; etc.
452. New system function $proc_null($proc *p): sets (*p) with the constant
46 value representing NULL of $proc type.
473. Add a set of translation from various language extensions (Pthread,
48 OpenMP, Cuda, MPI, etc) to CIVL-C into examples, at examples/translation.
49
50------------------------- Binary Installation -------------------------
51
52For most users, this will be the easiest way to install and use CIVL.
53
541. Install a Java 7 SDK if you have not already. Go to
55http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ for the
56latest from Oracle. On linux, you can optionally sudo apt-get install
57openjdk-7-jdk.
58
592. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
60skip this step. Otherwise, download the archive of VSL
61dependencies from http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend,
62choosing the version for your OS type (32-bit linux,
6364-bit linux, or 64-bit OS X). Unzip and untar the
64downloaded .tgz file and you will have a folder named "vsl".
65If you do not already have a directory /opt, create one with
66"mkdir /opt". Move vsl into /opt. Use sudo as needed.
67
683. Download the CIVL distribution from http://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 - emacs : CIVL-C emacs mode and its installation guideline
80 - licenses : licenses for CIVL and included libraries
81 - examples : some example CIVL programs
82
835. Move CIVL-TAG into /opt.
84
856. Put the civl script in your path however you like to put things
86in your path. Either move it to a directory in your path,
87or create a symlink to it, or edit your .profile or equivalent
88to put it in your path.
89
90------------------------- Source Installation -------------------------
91
92We recommend using the Eclipse IDE for Java/EE developers.
93
941. Install an SVN plugin in Eclipse (such as Subversive) if you have
95 not already.
96
972. Install prerequisite projects ABC, SARL and GMC.
98 Make sure that the three projects are put in the workspace
99 directory where CIVL will be put.
100
101 a. Install the C front-end ABC. In Eclipse,
102 select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
103 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/abc. After entering that, open it
104 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
105 the project "ABC". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
106 file for Eclipse installation. Build the abc.jar from within
107 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking on OS X) on the
108 build.xml file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
109
110 b. Install the symbolic algebra and reasoning library SARL.
111 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
112 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/sarl. After entering that, open it
113 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
114 the project "SARL". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
115 file for Eclipse installation. Build the sarl.jar from within
116 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml
117 file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
118
119 c. Install the generic model checking utilities package GMC.
120 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
121 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/gmc. After entering that, open it
122 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
123 the project "GMC". Build the gmc.jar from within Eclipse
124 by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml file and
125 selecting Run As->Ant Build.
126
1273. From within Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN. The archive is
128 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl. After entering that, open it up and
129 select the "trunk". (It is simplest to just check out the trunk for
130 the Eclipse project.)
131
1324. Check out the trunk, and create the project using the New Java
133 Project Wizard as usual, naming it "CIVL". The .project, .classpath,
134 and other Eclipse meta-data are already in the SVN archive, saving you
135 a bunch of work.
136
1375. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
138 skip this step. Download the tgz archive of VSL dependencies from
139 http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend, choosing the right .tgz
140 according to your platform:
141
142 vsl_linux32-1.0.tgz - 32-bit linux
143 vsl_linux64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit linux
144 vsl_osx64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit osx
145
146 Unzip the .tgz file and you will have the folder vsl.
147 Move vsl to /opt (you might need to use sudo for this.
148 Also, if you don't already have a directory called /opt,
149 you will have to create it with mkdir /opt).
150
151 Suppose that you put the .tgz file (or .tar file if your browser
152 unzipped it automatically to a .tar file) in the directory $Download.
153 You can use the following commands:
154
155 $ cd $Download
156 $ tar xzf YourTgzOrTarFile vsl
157 $ sudo mv vsl /opt
158
159 Now you can type "ls /opt/vsl", and the output should be
160
161 README.txt lib licenses src
162
1636. If default_build.properties matches the configuration of your system,
164 then you can skip this step. Otherwise, you may need to create a file
165 build.properties in the directory where build.xml is in.
166 Copy and paste the content from any file under properties, edit each
167 entry with the path configured in your system. The newly created file
168 build.properties will automatically be used by ant to to build the .jar file.
169
1707. 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
1768. 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
1809. 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
19010. 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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