During the analysis of a program CBMC transforms the input program in an intermediate language called extended goto. Then the tool performs a series of simplifications on the obtained goto program until the program is given to the solver.

We say that a program is in the symex ready goto form when all the extended goto features have been simplified.

More specifically, a program that is in symex ready goto form is one that can be passed to symex by using any solver deriving from goto_verifiert without requiring any lowering step.

At the time of writing, verifiers extending goto_verifiert are:

all_properties_verifier_with_fault_localizationt,
all_properties_verifier_with_trace_storaget,
all_properties_verifiert,
cover_goals_verifier_with_trace_storaget,
stop_on_fail_verifier_with_fault_localizationt,
stop_on_fail_verifiert.

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