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Partially reverts 199d4cc, which accidentially disabled simplifications that require incomplete instructions to be marked GOTO.

Code such as

if (i > 0) x++;
else  x--;

will (now again) be converted to

IF i <= 0 THEN GOTO 1
x = x + 1;
GOTO 2
1: x = x - 1;

instead of

IF !(i <= 0) THEN GOTO 1
GOTO 2
1: x = x + 1;
GOTO 3
2: x = x - 1;

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Passed Diffblue compatibility checks (cbmc commit: e2a32bd).
Build URL: https://travis-ci.com/diffblue/test-gen/builds/76406298

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This doesn't work; there is an expectation that a GOTO has a target. The one added doesn't, which will fail the precondition of get_target().

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I'm of course unaware of any business constraints, and this proposed change may just be the quick fix that's needed right now. Just like @kroening said, this doesn't seem right. So I'm not really in favour of the change as proposed. There has definitively been a positive side effect here: a new test case more clearly describing expectations is going to be in place. Hence I'd propose the following:

  1. Split the pull commit so that the regression test is in a separate commit, marked as KNOWNBUG.
  2. If there are needs for an immediate fix, then use the change as proposed here (and as part of that commit turn the regression test into CORE).
  3. If there is more time, investigate a way to optimise the generated goto program/generate a more optimised sequence of instructions for if/else without temporarily creating an invalid instruction.

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peterschrammel commented Jun 15, 2018

I'm afraid, we'll have to do 1+2 for now, because removing that optimisation is quite disruptive wrt coverage goal instrumentation.

I fully agree that we would like to make sure that certain invariants hold on each instruction in a goto program at any time. However, I don't see how an instruction with NO_INSTRUCTION_TYPE could be considered "valid". I doubt that such an instruction should be the mechanism for enabling the two-step initialisation of certain instructions that the current translation process requires (in particular, since the instruction type is already determined in the first initialisation step and this information is crucial for the optimisations performed in the second initialisation step).

The optimisation has been inadvertently broken by 199d4cc
due to lack of a regression test.
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In my opinion, the final solution should really be such as to never generate that instruction in the first place. Neither NO_INSTRUCTION_TYPE nor incomplete-goto seem right to me. Doing so may require some larger refactoring and additional data structures to maintain the information that this temporary instruction presently conveys. Doing this larger-scale work may be infeasible within minutes and may thus have to be put in an issue (@peterschrammel, please create one if you have to go that route).

Partially reverts 199d4cc, which accidentially disabled
simplifications that require incomplete instructions to
be marked GOTO.
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@kroening, I've added an issue here: #2357 Let's discuss what the preferred fix for this is.

@peterschrammel peterschrammel merged commit 360fabe into diffblue:develop Jun 15, 2018
@peterschrammel peterschrammel deleted the fix-goto-simplification branch June 15, 2018 17:45
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Passed Diffblue compatibility checks (cbmc commit: 4394016).
Build URL: https://travis-ci.com/diffblue/test-gen/builds/76435965

NathanJPhillips pushed a commit to NathanJPhillips/cbmc that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2018
e6d196d Merge pull request diffblue#2355 from owen-jones-diffblue/owen-jones-diffblue/add-name-to-array-type
6f7580d Merge pull request diffblue#2351 from romainbrenguier/bugfix/null-array
b2089b7 Add unit test for array_poolt
2df6d81 Set name of java array types
50e02b0 Simplify make_char_array_for_char_pointer
645eda9 Improve invariant message
3c7a671 Look up for null pointer in array pool
32a4186 Merge pull request diffblue#2302 from romainbrenguier/refactor/ci-lazy-methods
c4aadab Extract handle_virtual_methods_with_no_callees
cac016d Extract a convert_and_analyze_method method
ca0adc9 Correct indentation
24b6936 Extract entry_point_methods method
360fabe Merge pull request diffblue#2356 from peterschrammel/fix-goto-simplification
4394016 Temporary fix to enable if-then-else simplifications
d433438 Test for if-then-else optimisation in goto convert
e5d1c12 Merge pull request diffblue#2354 from Degiorgio/disable-soundness-check-for-shared-pointers
7d4d4bd Skip check for unsoundness in shared pointer handling (java only)
8e6244c Merge pull request diffblue#2043 from peterschrammel/fail-on-uncaught-exception
ec3010f Merge pull request diffblue#1994 from tautschnig/concurrency-soundness
1a9850a Merge pull request diffblue#2326 from tautschnig/c++-enum
b71efaf Merge pull request diffblue#2019 from tautschnig/remove-unused
26b13ae Abort concurrency encoding in possibly unsound cases
cd2ef4b Enable throwing of AssertionError
653d887 Remove wrong assumption from goto check
07acde4 Refactor user-defined assertion translation for Java
04c0205 Assert that there is uncaught exception
1daf466 Use resolver to translate cpp_name to scoped base_name
471b20f Remove prop_assignmentt interface
2639cf1 Remove unused solvers/prop/prop_conv_store.{h,cpp}
502687e Remove unused solver/prop/prop_wrapper.h
ae56978 Remove unused goto-analyzer/static_analyzer.{h,cpp}
2260f82 Remove path_accelerationt interface
d350e5c Remove unused nondet_ifthenelse.{h,cpp}
a4936f8 Remove unused cpp/recursion_counter.h
71cfbbd Remove unused sorted_vector.h
4d4c9c6 Revert "added pipe_stream class"
2696420 Revert "new exception class"
3fb06ba Revert "Added utility class to convert strings into expressions"
55bdbc7 Recompile regression test class files
118f41f Merge pull request diffblue#2352 from tautschnig/c++-auto-tc
5a4dc8d Merge pull request diffblue#2315 from diffblue/fix-goto
199d4cc prevent half-constructed GOTO instructions
72156d5 C++ front-end: fix auto+references after already-typechecked cleanup
8fac5ed Merge pull request diffblue#2069 from romainbrenguier/refactor/convert_instruction
309d207 remove conversion for non-deterministic-goto
67081d5 Extract convert_pop function
cd98a1f Extract convert_switch function
f2acb00 Extract convert_dup2_x2 function
66cf709 Extract convert_dup2_x1 function
e0735af Extract convert_dup2 function
51f53ca Extract convert_const function
d627638 Extract convert_invoke function
fcfca08 Extract replace_calls_to_cprover_assume function
0a521a4 Extract convert_checkcast function
4c28f99 Extract convert_athrow function
21e37a8 Extract convert_monitorexit function
a7bbf53 Extract do_exception_handling function
0aa1c8e Extract convert_monitorenter function
48dd97f Extract convert_multianewarray function
edc4a28 Extract convert_newarray function
f8d00f6 Extract convert_new function
b846798 Extract convert_putstatic function
27af4a2 Extract convert_putfield function
f1edff9 Extract convert_getstatic function
68bddf1 Remove redundant assert
6f0f3fb Extract convert_cmp2 function
3049281 Extract convert_cmp function
5a5788c Extract convert_ushr function
305ede8 Extract convert_iinc function
61d03da Extract convert_ifnull function
b4f6d04 Extract convert_if_nonull function
0e911d4 Extract convert_if function
651246e Extract convert_if_cmp function
fc95df1 Extract convert_ret function
ce58dca Extract convert_aload/store/astore functions
14e3c35 Extract convert_invokedynamic function
939bb53 Rename iterators and use auto
ddb31a0 Extract draw_edges_from_ret_to_jsr function
390063f Extract try_catch_handler function
87a4f31 Make label static
36ed947 Replace assert by invariant
036f1b1 Use auto for iterator types

git-subtree-dir: cbmc
git-subtree-split: e6d196d
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