Sunday, October 18, 2015

Windows Sysinternals

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. Extremely useful in the command line environment.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Z3 SMT solver

Z3 is a Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. It is an automated satisfiability checker for many-typed first-order logic with built-in theories, including support for quantifiers. The currently supported theories are:
  • equality over free (aka uninterpreted) function and predicate symbols
  • real and integer arithmetic
  • bit-vectors and arrays
  • tuple/records/enumeration types and algebraic (recursive) data-types.
Z3 checks whether a set of formulas is satisfiable in the built-in theories. When the set of formulas is existential then Z3 is a decision procedure: it is always guaranteed to return a correct answer.
  • If a set of formulas F is satisfiable, Z3 can produce a model for F.
  • If a set of formulas contains universal quantifiers, then the model produced by Z3 should be viewed as a potential model, since Z3 is incomplete in this case.