NIPS VM - New Implementation of Promela Semantics Virtual Machine Copyright (C) 2005: Stefan Schuermans Michael Weber 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