PLC Homework

Overview -

In this homework you will write a tool called simgc that can simulate mark-and-sweep garbage collection on an input reference graph. You will have to parse in that graph, and then simulate mark-and-sweep in a step-by-step fashion on the graph. For each step of mark-and-sweep, you will emit a GraphViz file from your program. GraphViz is a graph description language, and there are tools that can render these files to reasonably nice-looking graphs. You can also render them on the web:

http://www.webgraphviz.com

By emitting these GraphViz files (and then rendering them using the existing GraphViz tools), you can create a sequence of images showing the step-by-step execution of mark-and-sweep on an input graph.

2. Parsing memgraph files

The first part of implementing simgc is to be able to parse in files in memgraph format (a format I am proposing for this assignment). A sample file is graph1.mem. A memgraph file looks like:

1. optional whitespace, then the characters ROOTS: (with the colon).

2. whitespace, then a whitespace-separated list of ids, where an id is any sequence of one or more digits 0 through 9 or lowercase letter. So x, cell, 25, and x1y2 are all legal ids.

3. whitespace, then the characters GRAPH: (with the colon).

4. then a list of edges, where an edge has an id, then whitespace, then the characters ->, then whitespace, and then a whitespace-separated list of ids.

5. then optional whitespace and a semicolon.

See graph1.mem for an example. The idea is that an edge like

a -> b c d ;

Represents three graph edges: from a to b, from a to c, and from a to d.

For this problem, please create a grammar file called memgraph.gr where the name of the grammar (first line of the file) is memgraph and also where the start symbol of the grammar is strt. Compile your grammar using gratr as usual. The simgc.agda file you will modify subsequently assumes that you have done these steps. The parser gratr emits for your memgraph.gr grammar should be able to parse graph1.mem and similar examples.

You will receive full credit for this problem if the parser generated by gratr for your grammar can handle test cases like graph1.mem; we also may test to make sure your grammar is not too liberal in the sense that it accepts files it should not.

3. The garbage collection

Now you can try compiling the simgc.agda file I am providing, which also makes use of a file called mg.agda. Your goal is to write a program that can simulate mark-and-sweep garbage collection on the graph you have parsed in in the previous problem. You should modify the process-strt function of simgc.agda, so that it returns a list of strings. Each string represents a snapshot of the garbage-collection algorithm running on the input graph. The code I am providing in simgc.agda takes care of printing these strings to mem-*.gv files.

For 40 points, you can just show the currently marked nodes and the next node that is to be processed (in either a depth-first or breadth-first traversal of the graph { either is ok). An example for graph1.mem is given in the files mem-*.txt in the hw9 directory (though the code in simgc will print them to mem-*.gv, not .txt). Those files are generated using mg-to-string from the mg.agda file. This requires converting your parse tree to an mg value. In fact, my only official suggestion about how to structure your code is first to convert your parse tree to an mg structure, and then write a traversal function that takes an mg as input and returns a new one as output.

For 60 points, the snapshots should be GraphViz files showing the roots (as arrows from hidden nodes to the actual root nodes) and the graph. The next node to process should be double-circled. Marked nodes should be colored green. See the files mem-*.gv for examples. The files mem-*.jpg show the output you get when running the dot tool (part of the GraphViz package you can install on your computer if you wish) like this:

dot -Tjpg -o mem-0.jpg mem-0.gv

Of course, you have to write a function to print out a data structure (like mg as I am suggesting) in GraphViz format. This is somewhat involved. The last snapshot should show the graph with garbage removed.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.zip