Topo (Toolset for Product Realisation with Lotos)

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Disclaimer

These tools were developed by the Department of Telematics Engineering and Systems, Polytechnic University of Madrid. The copyright in the code therefore rests with UPM. Although the tools were developed up to 1993, they remain very useful and have been extensively used by the distributor in his research.

The distributor has taken the original version 3.7 of the tools and ported it to run under CygWin on Microsoft Windows (Windows XP to 10 are known to work). The tools have also been ported to Debian Linux. The binary ports are made available as a convenience to others.

The distributor is not the author or owner of the code. Apply to a colleague of Prof. Juan Quemada if you wish to make use of the source code.

Description

Topo is a front-end to a variety of Lotos tools. These include glad (General Language to Annotate Data, data compilation), ildi (Interactive Lotos Data Interpreter, data analyser), lfe (Lotos Front End, syntax analyser), lola (Lotos Laboratory, simulation and testing), and lsa (Lisa Static Analyser, static semantics checking). The tools can be used individually or through Topo.

Small technical changes have been made during porting:

• some minor errors have been corrected
• the code has been tidied to avoid compiler warnings (on a 32-bit system)
• some parsing limits have been increased to deal with larger specifications
• changes have been made for the current versions of CygWin and gcc
• when simulating with Lola, if the only menu item is an internal event then this is automatically chosen (to save unnecessary selections); if necessary, undo this step manually to check the previous specification state
• when simulating with Lola, the special variable date_time will have the current date and time "YYYYMMDD HHMMSS W" as a Lotos string (for use in specifications that need some notion of real time)
• the stir (Stirling) library for Lotos has been included

Installation

Installation requires the eps (parsing), lola (simulator) and topo (front-end) directories to be placed anywhere convenient (e.g. /usr/local). The environment variable PATH should be set to include the Topo binary directory (e.g. /usr/local/topo/bin). The environment variable TOPO should be set to wherever Topo is installed (e.g. /usr/local/topo).

The code is supplied pre-built for CygWin and Linux (both with 32-bit and 64-bit Intel versions). Rename one of the bin-* directories as bin, depending on the local system type.

Building

To build the code from scratch requires a Unix-like environment with tools including a C compiler (e.g. gcc), a make facility (e.g. Gnu make) and a shell (e.g. sh). On a 32-bit system, the code should compile reasonable cleanly. On a 64-bit system, there will be many compiler warnings about converting a pointer to/from an integer of a different size; it seems that these wanings can be disregarded.

Adjust eps/eps2, topo/top2 and lola/src/Makefile according to the local environment (C compiler, installation directory, etc.). First build eps by running BUILD (or eps2). Then build topo by running INSTALL (or topo2). Finally build lola by running make in the src directory.

Some header files define variables that result in the linker reporting duplicate symbols (the -fcommon flag of gcc should be used to work around this). Some doubtful code may remain, e.g. functions that return a pointer to a local variable and pointer/integer conversions on a 64-bit system.

Usage

See lola/doc and topo/doc for more information on how to call the tools. As an example, the following will check and simulate myspec.lot using the International Standard Lotos library:

    topo myspec.lot -lola -l is
  

History

First public port (version 3.7.2) Ken Turner, 2nd February 2011

Second public port (version 3.7.3) Ken Turner, 15th February 2012

• changes made to allow compilation under Linux
• a latent bug has been corrected in topo/src/lfe/lexana.c (the local token variable is now allocated from the heap instead of returning whatever was temporarily allocated on the stack)

Third public port (version 3.7.3) Ken Turner, 11th October 2012

• recompiled to have the correct version number

Fourth public port (version 3.7.4) Ken Turner, 23rd January 2023

• the above notes added about use on 64-bit systems, but code changes for such systems not supplied
• tidied the source code to avoid the many compiler warnings on a 32-bit system
• fixed a problem with lfe (and other tools) where function gtk was incorrectly returning a local token value from the stack rather than allocating it on the heap
• pre-compiled code for both Cygwin and Linux has been updated

Fifth public port (version 3.7.5) Ken Turner, 26th January 2023

• fixed problems that stopped lola working on a 64-bit system (Look_iattr in batransl.c now returns a pointer rather than an integer, EchoInt in limisc.c now handles pointers rather than integers, GateSet_to_GateList in bagates.c now deals with the proper word length)
• pre-built code has been added for Cygwin and Linux (both with 32-bit and 64-bit Intel versions)

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