The Examiner can be requested to generate a set of Verification Conditions or VCs. VCs are used to attempt to establish certain properties hold for a given subprogram. At a minimum, the Examiner will generate VCs attempting to establish that the following run-time errors cannot occur within a subprogram:
- array index out of range
- type range violation
- division by zero
- numerical overflow.
If a postcondition is added to the specification, the Examiner will also generate VCs that require the user to show that the postcondition will hold for all possible paths through the subprogram.
Discharging these proof obligations is performed using the SPADE Simplifier (an automated theorem prover) and the SPADE Proof Checker (a manual theorem prover, used for those VCs too thorny for the Simplifier to automatically discharge).
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