Project

General

Profile

Actions

Support #3662

open

Blast documentation?

Added by Roopak Sinha over 11 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
11/06/2012
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:

Description

Hi,

How different are the new Blast versions from 2.5? I find the newer versions to be much better (performance wise), but cannot find documentation/manuals on the new site.

Please advise.

Regards,
Roopak


Files

Simplest.c (1.35 KB) Simplest.c Roopak Sinha, 11/07/2012 01:54 AM
Actions #1

Updated by Alexey Khoroshilov over 11 years ago

Top level description of changes is available at the News page:
http://forge.ispras.ru/projects/blast/news

More detailed description was published at TACAS'12:
http://sv-comp.sosy-lab.org/2012/submissions/tacas2012_submission_199_BLAST%202.7.pdf

Actions #2

Updated by Vadim Mutilin over 11 years ago

The description of options is available with

pblast.opt --help

Supported options are above the section:

Old Heuristics that are no longer used/supported

For Linux drivers we use options
-predH 7 -lattice -include-lattice symb -include-lattice list -craig 2
-stop-sep -merge bdd

Also
-main for entry point
-L for error label

If you want alias analysis, then add:
-alias bdd
-cref
-nomusts -const

Option used for SV-COMP'12 are described in the section:

Software Verificaiton competition 2011 options

Actions #3

Updated by Roopak Sinha over 11 years ago

Thanks, that's great.

I have a simple program that seems to be taking forever for Blast to verify (it should be safe IMHO). The program in question is attached (I am looking for the possibility of reaching the ERROR label).

Is there any way to make Blast converge faster, or perform bounded verification?

Also, should I have opened a new request for this question?

Thanks,
Roopak

Actions #4

Updated by Pavel Shved over 11 years ago

Vadim Mutilin wrote:

For Linux drivers we use options
-predH 7 -lattice -include-lattice symb -include-lattice list -craig 2
-stop-sep -merge bdd

So, this is precisely the reason why we should document BLAST more. :) -predH 7, -craig 2, -stop-sep and -merge bdd are default, and there's no need to specify them in latest versions of blast.

If you want alias analysis, then add:
-alias bdd
-cref
-nomusts -const

It should be simplified to one single -analyze-aliases option. :( Verifiers should "just work".

As per Simple.c program, after 20 minutes of verification the underlying solver consumed all my memory, and the verification didn't complete. It feels like it should complete sooner or later if the underlying tools are good enough.

Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF