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NAME

       Why3 - software verification platform

SYNOPSIS

       why3 [general options] <command> [command options] [command arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page summarizes basic information about the why3 command.  Please refer to the
       Reference Manual for complete information.

       Why3 is a platform for deductive program verification. It provides  a  rich  language  for
       specification  and programming, called whyml, and relies on external theorem provers, both
       automated and interactive,  to  discharge  verification  conditions.  Why3  comes  with  a
       standard  library  of  logical  theories (integer and real arithmetic, Boolean operations,
       sets and maps, etc.) and basic programming data structures (arrays, queues,  hash  tables,
       etc.).  A  user  can  write  whyml programs directly and get correct-by-construction OCaml
       programs through an automated extraction mechanism. whyml is also used as an  intermediate
       language for the verification of C, Java, or Ada programs.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -C <file>
              read configuration from <file>

       --config
              same as -C

       --extra-config <file> read additional configuration from <file>

       -L <dir>
              add <dir> to the library search path

       --library
              same as -L

       --debug <flag>
              set a debug flag

       --debug-all
              set all debug flags that do not change Why3 behaviour

       --list-debug-flags
              list known debug flags

       --list-transforms
              list known transformations

       --list-printers
              list known printers

       --list-provers
              list known provers

       --list-formats
              list known input formats

       --list-metas
              list known metas

       --print-libdir
              print location of binary components (plugins, etc)

       --print-datadir
              print location of non-binary data (theories, modules, etc)

       --version
              print version information

       -h     print this list of options

       --help same as -h

COMMANDS

       config creates a why3 configuration file ~/.why3.conf,
              containing  in  particular information about available provers and plugins. If this
              file exists already, config will only reset unset variables to default  value,  but
              will not try to detect provers.

              The  subcommand  detect  forces  Why3  to detect again the available provers and to
              replace them in the configuration file.

              If a supported  prover  is  installed  under  a  name  that  is  not  automatically
              recognized by why3 config, the subcommand add-prover adds a specified binary to the
              configuration. For example, an Alt-Ergo executable /home/me/bin/alt-ergo-trunk  can
              be added as follows:

                why3 config add-prover alt-ergo /home/me/bin/alt-ergo-trunk

       doc    produces HTML pages from Why3 source code.

       execute
              symbolically executes programs written in the WhyML language

       extract
              extracts OCaml code from programs written in the WhyML language

       ide    launches the graphical user interface of the why3 platform.

              There  are no specific command options. However, at least one command argument must
              be given. More precisely, the first argument must be the directory of the  session.
              If  the  directory  does  not  exist,  it is created. The other arguments should be
              existing files that are going to be added to the session. For convenience, if there
              is  only  one  argument,  it  can  be an existing file and in this case the session
              directory is obtained by removing the extension from the file name.

       prove  launches why3 in batch mode on a an input file

       realize
              produces skeleton files for proof assistants

       replay executes the proofs stored in a Why3 session file, as produced by the IDE.

       session

       wc     produces statistics about Why3 and WhyML source codes.

AUTHOR

       The information on this manpage was extracted from the complete Why3 reference manual.

SEE ALSO

       On a debian system, the full documentation for why3 is distributed in PDF and HTML  format
       in  the  packages  why3-doc-html  and  why3-doc-pdf.   It  is also available from the why3
       homepage <http://why3.lri.fr>.