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Verification for Dummies: SMT and Induction

Adrien Champion adrien.champion@ocamlpro.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. These posts broadly discusses induction as a formal verification technique, which here really means formal program verification. I will use concrete, runnabl...

14 Oct 2021

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Generating static and portable executables with OCaml

Distributing OCaml software on opam is great (if I dare say so myself), but sometimes you need to provide your tools to an audience outside of the OCaml community, or just without recompilations or in a simpler way. However, just distributing the locally generated binaries requires that the users ha...

02 Sep 2021

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opam 2.1.0 is released!

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are happy to announce the release of opam 2.1.0. Many new features made it in (see the pre-release changelogs or release notes for the details), but here are a few highlights. What's new in opam 2.1? Integration of system dependencies (formerly the op...

04 Aug 2021

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opam 2.0.9 release

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.9. This new version contains some back-ported fixes. New features Back-ported ability to load upgraded roots read-only; allows applications compiled with opam-state 2.0.9 to load a root which has b...

03 Aug 2021

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Detecting identity functions in Flambda

In some discussions among OCaml developers around the empty type (PR#9459), some people mused about the possibility of annotating functions with an attribute telling the compiler that the function should be trivial, and always return a value strictly equivalent to its argument.Curious about the feas...

16 Jul 2021

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Détection de fonctions d’identité dans Flambda

Au cours de discussions parmi les développeurs OCaml sur le type vide (PR#9459), certains caressaient l’idée d’annoter des fonctions avec un attribut indiquant au compilateur que la fonction devrait être triviale, et toujours renvoyer une valeur strictement équivalente à son argument. Nous ...

15 Jul 2021

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opam 2.1.0~rc2 released

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! The opam team has great pleasure in announcing opam 2.1.0~rc2! The focus since beta4 has been preparing for a world with more than one released version of opam (i.e. 2.0.x and 2.1.x). The release candidate extends CLI versioning further and, under the ho...

23 Jun 2021

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Réunion annuelle du Club des utilisateurs d’Alt-Ergo 2021

La troisième réunion annuelle du Club des utilisateurs d’Alt-Ergo a eu lieu le 1er avril ! Cette réunion annuelle est l’endroit idéal pour passer en revue les besoins de chaque partenaire concernant Alt-Ergo. Nous avons eu le plaisir de recevoir nos partenaires pour discuter de la feuille de...

29 Apr 2021

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New Try-Alt-Ergo

Have you heard about our Try-Alt-Ergo website? Created in 2014 (see our blogpost), the first objective was to facilitate access to our performant SMT Solver Alt-Ergo. Try-Alt-Ergo allows you to write and run your problems in your browser without any server computation. This playground website has be...

29 Mar 2021

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