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Test plug-ins (re-)released: LUncov, LAnnotate, LReplay (all part of LTest)
André Maroneze (review by Virgile Prevosto) on 19 April 2022

The Ltest “meta-plugin” (composed of three parts: LUncov, LAnnotate and LReplay) has been (re-)released on Frama-C’s public Gitlab, and as 3 opam packages: frama-c-luncov, frama-c-lannotate, and lreplay. These plugins help measure test coverage based on hyperlabels. Details about them are published here and here (you can also see the LTest...

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Quick ACSL Guide for Eva: a new mini-tutorial
André Maroneze (review by V. Prevosto, P. Baudin) on 6 April 2022

In 2016, a few blog posts (part 1, part 2, part 3) presented a short tutorial on writing ACSL clauses for Eva (back then, the Value Analysis plug-in). A few things changed since then, but posting them again in this blog would lead to the same issue in the future....

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Running old Frama-C versions from Docker images
André Maroneze on 15 October 2021

There are several reasons one might want to run an old version of Frama-C: - to test some outdated plugin which is only compatible with a previous version; - to re-run analyses mentioned in an old tutorial or blog post; - to compare results between Frama-C versions; - for nostalgia’s...

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Admit and check annotations in ACSL
André Maroneze on 10 June 2021

In Frama-C 23 (Vanadium), two new kinds of ACSL annotations are available, to complement assert: the admit and check annotations. In a nutshell, assert P is equivalent to check P; admit P. The former allows easier checking of the validity of predicates, while the latter documents the introduction of external...

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Frama-C GUI on the browser, via Docker
André Maroneze on 16 March 2021

New Frama-C Docker images, with a graphical interface, are available in the Docker Hub. They allow running Frama-C via a browser, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Frama-C + Docker + noVNC = Frama-C GUI on a browser The “traditional” Frama-C Docker images available on Docker Hub lack the graphical interface,...

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