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Catalogue › 2018

abcdsat_r18

Jingchao Chen
solverothermain
licenceMIT
can doUNSATUNSAT+proofgzip input
statusRuns, checks failedunstableReady on Docker Hub 329 pulls of satex/abcdsat_r18, all tags

Status

Builds but crashes with a floating point exception (SIGFPE, exit 136) on the satisfiable test instances.

Licence

permissive You can use it, modify it and ship it in your own software, commercial or not, as long as you keep the copyright notices.

Read from licence file abcdsat_r18/LICENSE.txt; this summary is informative, the licence text prevails. Corrections welcome by pull request.

Pull it from Docker and run it

docker pull satex/abcdsat_r18:2018
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data satex/abcdsat_r18:2018 instance.cnf proof.out

No build needed: the image is published on Docker Hub (checked 2026-09-25). Mount the directory that holds your instance on /data; the proof file is optional. Its full provenance is kept: the archived sources, the pinned build environment and the recipe are all listed below, and satex build abcdsat_r18:2018 rebuilds the same image on your own machine if you would rather not trust ours (slower, same solver).

Download the sources abcdsat_r18.zip, the competition submission as archived by SAT Heritage, to build it yourself with the recipe below. The Zenodo record holding the archives of this year was downloaded 2 113 times (Zenodo counts per record, not per file).

Licence
MIT (licence file abcdsat_r18/LICENSE.txt)
Image
satex/abcdsat_r18:2018
Command
./abcdsat_r18 FILECNF
Compressed input
read natively

How it is built

Recipe
builder generic/v1
Builder
generic/v1
Environment
debian:9.5-slim
Sources
abcdsat_r18.zip

Last verification

Run on 2026-09-15.

Build

build-environmentok
builder-base-imageok
compileok
docker-engineok
image-assembleok
runtime-baseok
runtime-base-imageok
runtime-dependenciesok
source-downloadok
source-extractok

Tests

launchok
sat-gzip-modelskipinvalid result
sat-gzip-resultfailexpected return code 10 (or wrapper code 0), got 136
sat-gzip-terminationok136
sat-modelskipinvalid result
sat-resultfailexpected return code 10 (or wrapper code 0), got 136
sat-terminationok136
unsat-proofok
unsat-proof-run-resultokUNSAT
unsat-proof-run-terminationokUNSAT
unsat-resultokUNSAT
unsat-terminationokUNSAT