Are functions in z3 realized by inlining? E.g. would this
(define-fun f ((parameter Int)) Int (* parameter parameter))
(assert (= (f x) y))
automatically be replaced by this?:
(assert (= (* x x) y))
I know that in https://smtlib.github.io/jSMTLIB/SMTLIBTutorial.pdf#subsection.3.9.4 (page 38) it is mentioned that they are "equivalent"/"an abbreviation", but I just wanted to make sure whether this means that the function calls themselves are replaced.
Thanks so much!
Yes, the SMT-LIB standard indeed defines define-fun to be a C-style macro that is syntactically expanded to its defining expression.
However, while this defines its semantics, the definition does not necessarily require SMT-LIB tools, most notably SMT solvers, to actually implement define-fun like this. Hence, it could be that an SMT solver behaved differently, e.g. in terms of performance, if you ran it on two versions of a program: one with define-funs, and a second where you manually replaced all define-funs with their corresponding expressions.
The last bit is pure speculation from my side, though; you'd have to look at, e.g. Z3's sources (or maybe just its verbose debug output) to find out what a particular tool actually does.
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