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TENEX/TOPS20 SAIL SIMPLIFIED
Robert Smith
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
April 1, 1978
Revised, 9-Jul-79, by C. Hedrick
This memo describes how to put up a version of TENEX SAIL on
either a TENEX (version 31 or later) or TOPS20 (version 3) system. As
of March, 1979, a few modifications had been added to TENEX SAIL to
facilitate its use on TOPS20 version 3. These changes are described
below.
The complete assembly of TENEX/TOPS20 SAIL is described in
TELLEM, the SAIL implementor's guide. The sources for all SAIL systems
are kept at SU-AI and maintained there, so the sources can be obtained
from there via the ARPA NET. This distribution includes those sources
needed to make the tops-20 version of SAIL.
Fortunately, it should not be necessary to reassemble SAIL in
order to get a working TENEX SAIL system up on a standard TENEX (KI or
KA 10) system running 1.31 or later, or TOPS20 (KL processor) running
version 3 of TOPS20 or later. A current, standard TENEX/TOPS20 version
of SAIL will be kept at site Rutgers on directory S:<SAIL.TOPS20> and
is available from there via FTP in paged transfer mode.
*******WARNING********: The version of SAIL supplied herein has
the University of Rochester LEAP features turned on. The only affect
that is supposed to be visible to the user is that he can use up to
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2**18 items, rather than 2**12 which is the normal limit. The actual
implementation is fairly different, as you might imagine. Because
there are differences in GOGTAB between this version and the standard
one, we have set the version number to 9 (i.e. T-6-SAISG9.EXE,
LIBSA9.REL, HLBSA9.REL, etc.). Should you reassemble with URLEAP and
URHASH off (They are set in TENXSW.), you can continue to use version
number 8. This is set in HEAD. However we believe that anyone that
uses LEAP seriously will want the new LEAP, and anyone who doesn't
won't be affected one way or the other.
FILES FOR THE BASIC COMPILER. Put the following on directory
<SAIL>. The SAIL system, like the LISP system, assumes that you have a
dedicated directory. If you are running Tops-20, you should define a
system logical device SAI: as PS:<SAIL>. Or course if you really
wanted to, you could define SAI: as <SUBSYS> and get along without a
separate directory, but we do not recommend this. To define SAI:,
insert the DEFINE command into <SYSTEM>3-CONFIG.CMD. Should you be
running Tenex, logical devices are not used, so all references are to
<SAIL> directly.
T-6-SAISG9.EXE ;runtime segment (.SAV if on Tenex)
;if you get this through a Tops-10 site, this
;file will be called SAISG9.EXE, because of
;the 6-character limit.
HLBSA9.REL ;"library"
LIBSA9.REL ;"library"
3OPS3.OPS ;TENEX opcode table, PDP10 instructions,
;jsyses
BKTBL.BKT ;default breaktable for STDBRK function
GOGTAB.DEF ;user table definitions file
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Put the following files on some directory in SYS: (<SUBSYS> on
Tenex). These files can live anywhere, but the most natural place is
SYS:. (You may have to be a wheel to put them there.)
SYS:
SAIL.EXE ;compiler
;on Tenex make this have name "SAIL.SAV"
LOWTSA.REL ;linkage to runtime system
SDDT.REL ;linkage to BAIL for Tops-20 DEBUG command only
LOADING SAIL programs. Tops-20 SAIL will automatically load
with LINK if you use the /G switch. There should be no problem with
recent DEC versions of LINK. Some Tenex sites prefer to use LOADER,
because their versions of LINK10 are out of date and do not support
SAIL properly. If you use LOADER, you may find that you must
reassemble it with an increase in the assembly parameter RELLEN (the
number of REQUIREd files). This is especially true if you use BAIL.
If you use LINK, note that SAIL uses the old format JOBDAT symbols
(e.g., JOBSA instead of .JBSA). There is an assembly switch in LINK
for this. However, our normal assembly procedure includes appending
JOBDAT.REL to LOWTSA.REL. Since this copy of JOBDAT.REL contains the
old format symbols you should have no problem. Sites using a version
of LINK with the old symbols need not append JOBDAT to LOWTSA.
LINKAGE TO THE EXEC. The standard EXEC distributed by DEC for
Tops-20 understands about the SAIL compiler. Unfortunately it does not
realize that SAIL programs need to be loaded with SYS:LOWTSA. We have
included a patch to make loading work correctly. The file EXECCS.DIF
contains the patch in source form. For sites that do not have EXEC
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sources, the file FILDDT.DDT can be used to insert the patch using
FILDDT. Do ENABLE PATCHING and GET EXEC.EXE. This will open the file
EXEC.EXE. Then use the $Y command to DDT. This will take the file
FILDDT.DDT. (the file name must be FILDDT.DDT.) When $Y is finished
(it will take some time. You will know when it is finished because the
system will type out a carriage-return, line feed), do a control Z to
put out the patches and exit from FILDDT. If for some reason this does
not work with your FILDDT, we include one in the distribution. Once
this patch is done, you should be able to use EXECUTE and COMPILE
commands. The DEBUG command will cause /DEBUG:SDDT to be passed to
LINK. This will load SDDT.REL, which will in turn require BAIL to be
loaded, and set a breakpoint at the beginning of the program. This all
assumes that an .SM1 file was produced by the original compilation.
When the EXEC calls SAIL, it will thus assume /BAIL:17. However if you
run SAIL explicitly, it will use whatever switches you do or don't set,
so you can get yourself into minor trouble by compiling without /BAIL
and then trying to use the DEBUG command. If you attempt to compile a
program from a different directory than your connected directory, this
will fail. The DEC EXEC will pass a Tops-10 PPN (!!!!!), while SAIL
expects a directory name. These problems can be fixed with simple
patches to the EXEC, if you are a source site.
NEW OPCODE TABLE. You can make a new opcode table 3OPS3.OPS
using the program MAKTAB.TNX. This program reads your MONSYM.MAC
(STENEX.MAC or .FAI on Tenex), file and writes out a new 3OPS3.OPS,
including your jsyses into the PDP10(KA) instruction set. To do this,
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@SAIL ;use new compiler
TENEX SAIL etc
*MAKTAB.TNX
;various messages about compilation
*^C
@LINK
*SYS:LOWTSA,DSK:MAKTAB/G
;loader exits
@START
INPUT FILE FOR JSYS'ES (STENEX.FAI) *MONSYM.MAC
;writes out new opcode table
The 3OPS3.OPS file supplied has the JSYSes available at SUMEX.
It will therefore work, but is not optimal.
INSTALLING BAIL. The following files should be put on
directory <SAIL> in order to have the BAIL debugging system available.
BAICLC.REL,SM1
BAIIO1.REL,SM1
BAIIO2.REL,SM1
BAIMSC.REL,SM1
BAIPRC.REL,SM1
BAISM1.REL
BAIL.SAI
BAIPD9.SAI,SM1
If you are a Tenex site, you will have to do some reassembly: This is
because certain parts of BAIL have assembly-time conditionals, and
because BAIL and BAIPD9 include require statements for which the
compiler must produce PPN's appropriate for your particular system. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO USE BAI*.REL FROM ANOTHER SITE. (The .SM1 files are
transportable.) There is a file TENEX.RUN which is supposedly a run
file to do what is needed. Slight modifications may be needed for your
site, depending upon what loader you use, etc. You may find it
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necessary to use the FAIL.SAV supplied with this distribution to do
your compiling, as BBN's FAIL apparently will not compile SAIL. (This
is a special version of FAIL for Tenex, since we are told that the
standard one we use for Tops-20 will not run on Tenex.)
ADDITIONAL FILES. Several additional files are on directory
<XSAIL>. These include:
PROFIL.SAI ;the execution counter system
PROFIL.DOC ;simple description of above -- see
;SAIL MANUAL by Kurt Van Lehn for a
;description
CURRENT STATE. At present, there is no new development of the
SAIL language, and issues of maintenance have become unclear. In order
to support current users, and in order to make available to TOPS20
users the most complete ALGOL-like language for use in the TENEX/TOPS20
environment, we are undertaking very limited maintenance specifically
for TENEX and TOPS20 problems.
The file SAIL.DOC, included with this distribution, will
indicate the nature of the changes made for Tops-20. The same code
(compiler, object code, and runtime system) now runs under both TENEX
and TOPS20 version 3.
It is our intention to support TENEX/TOPS20 SAIL to the extent
needed to keep the system from falling completely in its tracks. At
present, we have very limited resources for doing this. I would
appreciate your reporting any questions/problems to HEDRICK@RUTGERS.
Suggestions for improvements will also be appreciated but will, at
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least for now, be given low priority. We would like a list of users,
so please send us your names.
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