NIPS VM added to the SPOT distribution.

2008-05-29  Guillaume SADEGH  <sadegh@lrde.epita.fr>

	* iface/nips/nips.cc, iface/nips/nips.hh, iface/nips/common.cc,
	iface/nips/common.hh, iface/nips/Makefile.am: TGBA implementation
	with the NIPS library.
	* iface/nips/emptiness_check.cc: Emptiness check on a Promela
	interface.
	* iface/nips/dottynips.cc: Dot printer on the NIPS interface.
	* iface/nips/compile.sh: Add. Wrapper around nips compiler to
	compile Promela to NIPS bytecode.
	* iface/nips/nips_vm,iface/nips/nips_vm/bytecode.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/ChangeLog, iface/nips/nips_vm/COPYING,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/hashtab.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/hashtab.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/INSTALL, iface/nips/nips_vm/instr.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_step.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_step.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_tools.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_tools.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_wrap.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_wrap.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/interactive.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/interactive.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/main.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/Makefile, iface/nips/nips_vm/Makefile.am,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm_help.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm_instr.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_disasm.pl, iface/nips/nips_vm/nipsvm.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nipsvm.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/README,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/rt_err.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/rt_err.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/search.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/search.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/split.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/split.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/state.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_inline.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_parts.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_parts.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/timeval.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/tools.h: NIPS VM added to the SPOT
	distribution.
	* configure.ac, iface/Makefile.am: Build system updated for the
	NIPS front-end.

iface/nips/nips_vm/README

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+NIPS VM - New Implementation of Promela Semantics Virtual Machine
+Copyright (C) 2005: Stefan Schuermans <stefan@schuermans.info>
+                    Michael Weber <michaelw@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
+                    Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik II, RWTH Aachen
+Copyleft: GNU public license - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+
+
+very short description
+======================
+
+NIPS VM is a non-deterministic virtual machine
+to be used for state space generation in model checkers.
+
+For more information, see:
+  Stefan Schuermans, Ein Compiler und eine Virtuelle Maschine
+  zur Zustandsraumgenerierung, Dimplomarbeit, Lehrstuhl II fuer
+  Informatik RWTH Aachen, Oktober 2005
+  (available only in German)
+
+For a description of the assembler and bytecode format, see:
+  assembler_format.txt
+  bytecode_format.txt
+
+
+dependencies
+============
+
+GNU make 3.80
+GNU C Compiler: gcc 3.3
+C runtime library: libc 2.3 (at least libc 2.1)
+perl 5.8.4
+(NIPS C 1.2+)
+
+versions given are known to work - other may work, too
+
+getting started
+===============
+
+compilation
+-----------
+make
+
+running an example
+------------------
+cd tests
+make
+make example
+
+running some tests
+------------------
+make benchmark
+cd ..
+
+assembling own files
+--------------------
+./nips_asm.pl mycode.s
+
+running interactive / random simulations
+----------------------------------------
+./nips_vm [-R] mycode.b
+
+generating full state space with breadth first / depth first search
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+./nips_vm {-B|-D 30} mycode.b
+
+other features
+--------------
+./nips_vm --help
+
+benchmarking against SPIN
+-------------------------
+# ensure that NIPS C is installed in ../nips_c/
+cd tests/spin
+./Benchmark
+