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    • Defattach

    Defattach-system

    Attach to built-in, system-level, constrained functions

    For background on attachments, see defattach. The macro defattach-system is a convenient way to attach to built-in functions. The event (defattach f g) will fail if f is built into ACL2. This failure can be overcome by specifying top-level keyword argument :system-ok t, for example: (defattach (f g) :system-ok t). However, rather than supplying this argument directly, it is recommended to use defattach-system, which has the same syntax as defattach with two exceptions: it adds :system-ok t automatically, that is, :system-ok is implicit; and it expands to a local call of defattach. The latter is important so that the attachment does not affect system behavior outside a book containing the defattach event. Of course, if it is truly intended to affect such behavior, the argument :system-ok t may be given directly to defattach, without a surrounding use of local.

    See system-attachments for discussion of system attachments. Also see efficiency for how to use attachments to modify the prover's behavior.