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      Verify-guards-formula

      View the guard proof obligation, without proving it

      See verify-guards and see guard for a discussion of guards. This utility, which does not evaluate its argument, provides output showing the guard proof obligation (also known as the guard theorem) as printed by verify-guards, but without then carrying out a proof attempt. See also guard-formula-utilities for related utilities.

      Example Forms:
      (verify-guards-formula foo)
      (verify-guards-formula foo :guard-debug t)
      (verify-guards-formula foo :guard-debug t :guard-simplify :limited)
      (verify-guards-formula foo :rrp t :otf-flg dont-care :xyz whatever)
      (verify-guards-formula (+ (foo x) (bar y)) :guard-debug t)

      Verify-guards-formula allows all keywords, but only pays attention to :guard-debug and :guard-simplify, which have the same effect as in verify-guards (also see guard-debug and guard-simplification), and to :rrp, described below. Apply verify-guards-formula to a name just as you would use verify-guards, but when you only want the output that shows the guard proof obligation, without attempting a proof or creating an event. If the first argument is not a symbol, then it is treated as the body of a defthm event for which you want the guard proof obligation.

      The :rrp argument (``return redundant p'') is nil by default. If its value is not nil, then in the case that the first argument is a guard-verified function symbol, the keyword :REDUNDANT is returned without any output.