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1 CIVL: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language
2 v 0.8
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 0.7 -------------------------
41
421. Dyscopes are now first-class objects, like processes and other types.
43 Refer to CIVL Manual Section 6.2.2 for more details about $scope expressions.
44
452. Interfaces for message passing are significantly simplified. Refer to
46 CIVL Manual Section 7.3.2 and examples/messagePassing for more details.
47
483. $wait is not implemented as a system function declared in civlc.h,
49 instead of a language primitive. So the syntax becomes "$wait(p)"
50 instead of "$wait p".
51
524. There is no longer a $heap type. Instead, every dynamic scope has its
53 own heap automatically. The $malloc function has been modified to take
54 a scope as its first argument, e.g., $malloc($here, sizeof(int)).
55
56------------------------- Binary Installation -------------------------
57
58For most users, this will be the easiest way to install and use CIVL.
59
601. Install a Java 7 SDK if you have not already. Go to
61http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ for the
62latest from Oracle. On linux, you can optionally sudo apt-get install
63openjdk-7-jdk.
64
652. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
66skip this step. Otherwise, download the archive of VSL
67dependencies from http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend,
68choosing the version for your OS type (32-bit linux,
6964-bit linux, or 64-bit OS X). Unzip and untar the
70downloaded .tgz file and you will have a folder named "vsl".
71If you do not already have a directory /opt, create one with
72"mkdir /opt". Move vsl into /opt. Use sudo as needed.
73
743. Download the appropriate CIVL distribution from
75http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl.
76
774. Unzip and untar the downloaded file if this does not happen
78automatically. This should result in a folder named
79CIVL-TAG, where TAG is some version id string. This folder
80contains the following:
81
82 - README : this file
83 - bin : containing one executable sh script called "civl"
84 - lib : containing civl-TAG.jar
85 - doc : containing the manual and the tutorial of CIVL
86 - licenses : licenses for CIVL and included libraries
87 - examples : some example CIVL programs
88
895. Move CIVL-TAG into /opt.
90
916. Put the civl script in your path however you like to put things
92in your path. Either move it to a directory in your path,
93or create a symlink to it, or edit your .profile or equivalent
94to put it in your path.
95
96------------------------- Source Installation -------------------------
97
98We recommend using the Eclipse IDE for Java/EE developers.
99
1001. Install prerequisite projects ABC, SARL and GMC.
101 Make sure that the three projects are put in the workspace
102 directory where CIVL will be put.
103
104 a. Install the C front-end ABC. In Eclipse,
105 select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
106 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/abc. After entering that, open it
107 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
108 the project "ABC". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
109 file for Eclipse installation. Build the abc.jar from within
110 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking on OS X) on the
111 build.xml file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
112
113 b. Install the symbolic algebra and reasoning library SARL.
114 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
115 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/sarl. After entering that, open it
116 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
117 the project "SARL". Then follow the instructions in the INSTALL
118 file for Eclipse installation. Build the sarl.jar from within
119 Eclipse by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml
120 file and selecting Run As->Ant Build.
121
122 c. Install the generic model checking utilities package GMC.
123 In Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN, use the archive
124 svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/gmc. After entering that, open it
125 up and select the "trunk". After checking out trunk, name
126 the project "GMC". Build the gmc.jar from within Eclipse
127 by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the build.xml file and
128 selecting Run As->Ant Build.
129
1302. From within Eclipse, select New Project...from SVN. The archive is
131svn://vsl.cis.udel.edu/civl. After entering that, open it up and
132select the "trunk". (It is simplest to just check out the trunk for
133the Eclipse project.)
134
1353. Check out the trunk, and create the project using the New Java
136Project Wizard as usual, naming it "CIVL". The .project, .classpath,
137and other Eclipse meta-data are already in the SVN archive, saving you
138a bunch of work.
139
1404. If you already have the VSL dependencies library, you may
141skip this step.
142
143Download the tgz archive of VSL dependencies from
144 http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/tools/vsl_depend,
145 choosing the right .tgz according to your platform:
146
147 vsl_linux32-1.0.tgz - 32-bit linux
148 vsl_linux64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit linux
149 vsl_osx64-1.0.tgz - 64-bit osx
150
151 Unzip the .tgz file and you will have the folder vsl.
152 Move vsl to /opt (you might need to use sudo for this.
153 Also, if you don't already have a directory called /opt,
154 you will have to create it with mkdir /opt).
155
156 Suppose that you put the .tgz file (or .tar file if your browser
157 unzipped it automatically to a .tar file) in the directory $Download.
158 You can use the following commands:
159
160 $ cd $Download
161 $ tar xzf YourTgzOrTarFile vsl
162 $ sudo mv vsl /opt
163
164 Now you can type "ls /opt/vsl", and the output should be
165
166 README.txt lib licenses src
167
1685. Create a file build.properties in the directory where build.xml is in.
169 Copy and paste the content from properties/build.properties.osx or
170 properties/build.properties.linux depending on your platform.
171 If your workspace directory is the default setting of Eclipse,
172 i.e., HOME/Documents/workspace for osx or HOME/workspace for linux,
173 then you dont have to anything.
174 Otherwise, you need to edit the entry "workspace" to point to the
175 corresponding directory where you put the projects ABC, SARL and GMC.
176
1776. Navigate to Preferences -> Java -> Build Path -> ClassPath
178 Variables, and then select New to create a classpath variable VSL,
179 and specify its value to be /opt/vsl. Navigate to Preferences -> Run/Debug
180 -> String Substitution -> New, and then define an entry vsl_lib and
181 set its value to be /opt/vsl/lib.
182
1837. Do a clean build. Everything should compile. Generate the civl.jar
184 by right-clicking (or ctrl-click on OS X) the build.xml file and
185 Run As->Ant Build.
186
1878. Go to Run->Run Configurations... Create a new JUnit configuration.
188 Name it CIVL Tests. Select "Run all tests in the selected project..."
189 and navigate to the folder "test" in the CIVL project.
190 The Test runner should be JUnit 4. Under the Arguments tab, type
191 "-ea" (without the quotes) in the VM arguments area (to enable assertion
192 checking). Under the Environment tab, create an entry
193 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (OS X) or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (linux),
194 specify its value by clicking Variables and choose vsl_lib from the list,
195 or you may type ${vsl_lib} in the value entry.
196
1979. An example of how to set up a single test from within Eclipse:
198 create a new Run Configuration via the Run->Run
199 Configurations... menu. Create a new "Java Application"
200 configuration. Call it "CIVL barrier2". The Project is CIVL. The
201 main class is edu.udel.cis.vsl.civl.CIVL. Under the Arguments tab,
202 set the Program arguments to "examples/barrier2.cvl" (without the
203 quotes). Modify the VM arguments and the Environment as in the step
204 above. You should now be able to run the test by clicking "Run".
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