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ESBMC is an SMT-based bounded model checker for real-world C programs. Such programs often represent real numbers using the floating-points, most commonly, the IEEE floating-point standard (IEEE 754-2008). Thus, ESBMC now includes a new floating-point arithmetic encoding layer in our SMT backend, that encodes floating-point operations into bit-vector operations. In particular, ESBMC can use off-the-shelf SMT solvers that offer support for bit-vectors only to encode floating-point arithmetic.
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Gadelha, M.R., Menezes, R., Monteiro, F.R., Cordeiro, L.C., Nicole, D. (2020). ESBMC: Scalable and Precise Test Generation based on the Floating-Point Theory. In: Wehrheim, H., Cabot, J. (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12076. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45234-6_27
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