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Sequence AST-creating arguments in rewriters for cross-compiler determinism (#10165)
### Problem
The order of evaluation of function arguments is unspecified in C++
(arguments are indeterminately sequenced since C++17). Compilers use
this freedom differently:
```c++
static int f(int i) { printf("%d ", i); return i; }
static void g(int, int, int) { printf("\n"); }
int main() { g(f(1), f(2), f(3)); }
```
| compiler/target | output |
|---|---|
| gcc 13, x86_64 | `3 2 1` |
| gcc 13, aarch64 | `1 2 3` |
| clang 18, x86_64 | `1 2 3` |
Z3 has many call sites where **two or more arguments each create AST
nodes**, e.g. (before this PR, `bv_rewriter.cpp:876`):
```c++
result = m.mk_ite(c, m_mk_extract(high, low, t), m_mk_extract(high, low, e));
```
The two extract nodes are hash-consed and receive their AST ids in
evaluation order, so the id assignment differs between
compilers/targets. AST ids feed heuristic tie-breaking throughout the
solver (`bool_rewriter`'s `m_order_eq` equality-operand ordering,
id-based sorts in `array_rewriter`, case-split ordering, ...), so
**byte-identical input takes different solver paths depending on the
compiler and architecture z3 was built with**.
### Evidence
Investigated while chasing cross-platform proof-time instability in
CBMC/mldsa-native CI (diffblue/cbmc#8991), on byte-identical ~12 MB SMT2
instances (bit-vectors + arrays + quantifiers), with the `string_hash`
fix from #10163 applied to isolate this effect. Z3 4.15.3, gcc 13 on
x86_64 Linux and aarch64 Linux (Graviton):
* one instance: **17 s on x86_64 vs 1633 s on aarch64** (both `unsat`; a
sibling instance shows the reverse direction). Run-to-run within one
host: ±1 %.
* Instrumenting `ast_manager::register_node_core` with an order
fingerprint (running hash over `(node hash, node id)`) shows both
architectures construct **identical AST sequences up to registration
#41,789**, where x86_64 creates `(extract[0:0] #xFFFFFFFF)` before
`(extract[0:0] #xFFFFFFFE)` and aarch64 the other way around — from
identical call stacks at the `mk_ite`-over-two-`mk_extract` site quoted
above. All divergence between the two hosts flows from such events
(pointer/ASLR effects experimentally excluded: fingerprints are
invariant under `setarch -R` and across repeated runs).
* Sequencing that one site by hand moved the first divergence to
#248,118 — the analogous `mk_ite(c, mk_select(...), mk_select(...))`
site in `array_rewriter.cpp`. Sequencing that one, too, moved it to
#248,411, inside `nnf:👿:process_iff_xor` — i.e. the next layer of
the same onion.
* With the whole `ast/rewriter` layer swept (this PR), the instrumented
builds produce **identical AST construction traces on both architectures
throughout the entire rewriter phase** of this 546k-line industrial
instance; the first divergence left is the NNF one.
### Fix
Following the precedent of 37904b9e8, e113d39aa, 360193098, 93ff8c76d,
9b88aaf13 ("parameter evaluation order", `bool_rewriter`/`seq_rewriter`)
and the existing comments in `seq_rewriter.cpp` ("introduce temporaries
to ensure deterministic evaluation order..."), this PR hoists
AST-creating arguments into named temporaries with a defined evaluation
order, across `src/ast/rewriter/` — 126 call sites in 17 files. The
transformation is purely sequencing: it selects one of the two valid C++
evaluation orders and makes it the same everywhere. (Temporaries are raw
pointers in rewriter-local scope, matching the precedent commits;
nothing can trigger GC between creation and consumption.)
The sites were found with a small AST-argument scanner (statement-level
call sites whose argument list contains ≥ 2 top-level arguments that
each contain an AST-creating call); I am happy to share/contribute the
script. Known remaining work, deliberately out of scope here to keep the
diff reviewable:
* 41 sites in `src/ast/rewriter/` that need manual treatment (inside
`if` conditions, ternaries, or multi-statement expressions) — list
available on request;
* `src/ast/normal_forms/nnf.cpp` (`process_iff_xor`, proven divergent by
the trace above), ~7 sites in `src/ast/simplifiers/`, ~3 in
`src/ast/converters/`, ~9 in `src/ast/`;
* other theory/solver layers (`src/smt/`, `src/sat/`, ...) — divergences
there only matter after search starts, where paths have usually already
split, but a full sweep would be needed for bit-reproducibility across
compilers.
Together with #10163, this is a step towards z3 builds whose behaviour
does not depend on the compiler or target architecture — which matters
for verification CI that runs identical proofs on heterogeneous
platforms and expects comparable runtimes.
---------
Co-authored-by: Kiro <kiro-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -618,7 +618,11 @@ struct pb2bv_rewriter::imp {
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return expr_ref(m.mk_true(), m);
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}
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expr_ref_vector fmls(m);
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fmls.push_back(m.mk_implies(m.mk_not(out[0]), mk_seg_le_rec(outs, coeffs, i + 1, k)));
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{
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auto _seq621_0 = m.mk_not(out[0]);
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auto _seq621_1 = mk_seg_le_rec(outs, coeffs, i + 1, k);
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fmls.push_back(m.mk_implies(_seq621_0, _seq621_1));
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}
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rational k1;
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for (unsigned j = 0; j + 1 < out.size(); ++j) {
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k1 = k - rational(j+1)*c;
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@ -626,7 +630,11 @@ struct pb2bv_rewriter::imp {
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fmls.push_back(m.mk_not(out[j]));
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break;
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}
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fmls.push_back(m.mk_implies(m.mk_and(out[j], m.mk_not(out[j+1])), mk_seg_le_rec(outs, coeffs, i + 1, k1)));
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{
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auto _seq629_0 = m.mk_and(out[j], m.mk_not(out[j + 1]));
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auto _seq629_1 = mk_seg_le_rec(outs, coeffs, i + 1, k1);
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fmls.push_back(m.mk_implies(_seq629_0, _seq629_1));
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}
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}
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return ::mk_and(fmls);
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}
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