Add the ability to customize incremental pre-processing simplification for the SMTLIB2 front-end. The main new capability is to use pre-processing tactics in incremental mode that were previously not available. The main new capabilities are
- solve-eqs
- reduce-args
- elim-unconstrained
There are several more. Documentation and exposed simplifiers are populated incrementally. The current set of supported simplifiers can be inspected by using z3 with the --simplifiers flag or referring to https://microsoft.github.io/z3guide/docs/strategies/simplifiers
Some pending features are:
- add the ability to update parameters to simplifiers similar to how tactics can be controlled using parameters.
- expose simplification solvers over the binary API.
move sat_smt_preprocess to solver
fix bugs in model_reconstruction_trail for dependency replay
This is a preparatory step for exposing pre-processing as tactics.
- convert reduce-args to a simplifier. Currently exposed as reduce-args2 tactic until the old tactic code gets removed.
- bug fixes in model_reconstruction trail
- allow multiple defs to be added with same pool of removed formulas
- fix tracking of function symbols instead of expressions to filter replay
- add nla_divisions to track (cheap) divisibility lemmas.
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- increase build version to 4.12.1. This prepares updated release for MacOs-11 build on x86
- move literal propagation mode in euf-egraph to a callback and traversal of equivalence class. Track antecedent by newest equality instead of root. This makes equality propagation to literals have similar behavior as in legacy solver and appears to result in a speedup (10% fewer conflicts on QF_UF/QG-classification/qg5/iso_icl478.smt2 in preliminary testing)
- fix interaction of pre-processing and assumptions. Pre-processing has to freeze assumption literals so they don't get eliminated. This is similar to dependencies that are already frozen.
other updates:
- change signature of advance_qhead to simplify call sites
- have model reconstruction replay work on a tail of dependent_expr state, while adding formulas to the tail.
- remove reduce_invertible. It is subsumed by reduce_uncstr(2)
- introduce a simplifier for reduce_unconstrained. It uses reference counting to deal with inefficiency bug of legacy reduce_uncstr. It decomposes theory plugins into expr_inverter.
reduce_invertible is a tactic used in most built-in scenarios. It is useful for removing subterms that can be eliminated using "cheap" quantifier elimination. Specifically variables that occur only once can be removed in many cases by computing an expression that represents the effect computing a value for the eliminated occurrence.
The theory plugins for variable elimination are very partial and should be augmented by extensions, esp. for the case of bit-vectors where the invertibility conditions are thoroughly documented by Niemetz and Preiner.
