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authorPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-07-06 10:32:34 +0300
committerPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-07-06 10:32:34 +0300
commit3f906d03262150892e2297e621bfc56e425ef142 (patch)
tree79d69a4b011882716626565c27793ce04532227e /formal/selection.go
parentf74812f8eda48194b622bdd318f35d3a6b6328cd (diff)
Close verification-coverage gaps; harness finds two more bugsHEADmaster
Extends the verification harness from sorts-only to the whole repo, and in doing so surfaces two further latent bugs (on top of the earlier hash-shift one): Bugs found and fixed: - queue/elementarypriority.go: max() seeded at the zero value, so an all-negative queue reported a phantom max of 0 and DeleteMax returned/removed the wrong element. Caught by the new queue permutation property (testing/quick generates negatives; the old test data never did). Seed from a[0] instead. - sort/sleep.go: result built on NewArrayList(len(a)) -- a slice of that LENGTH (len(a) zeros) -- then appended to, yielding double-length output with leading zeros. The old .Sorted()-only test passed because zeros-then-ascending is sorted. Caught by the new Sleep permutation check. Build from an empty slice. Coverage added: - queue/property_test.go: ordering + permutation (completeness) for both queues. - TestSleepSort now also checks permutation, not just Sorted(). - docs/verification.md: paper proofs for all search/set structures (Elementary, Hash, BST, red-black BST invariants, GoMap) and both priority queues. - formal/tla/ParallelSort.tla: exhaustive fork/join model of ParallelMerge/ ParallelQuick -- disjoint write-ranges (no data race) + termination. Wired into make verify-model. - formal/selection.go: second Gobra proof (memory safety + sortedness). Wired into make verify-formal. - docs/case-study-bugs-found.md: extensive write-up of all three bugs, how each was caught, why the old tests missed it, and the fix (supersedes the earlier single-bug case study). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+package formal
+
+// Selection sorts a in ascending order, in place. This is a monomorphized
+// (non-generic, plain []int, inlined swap, no `continue`) copy of
+// sort.Selection, annotated so Gobra proves memory safety AND that the result
+// is sorted ascending, for all inputs.
+//
+// Selection sort's proof needs a stronger outer invariant than insertion sort:
+// not only is the prefix a[0..i) sorted, but every element of that prefix is
+// <= every element of the unsorted suffix a[i..len). That second invariant is
+// what lets the newly selected minimum extend the sorted prefix.
+//
+//@ requires forall k int :: 0 <= k && k < len(a) ==> acc(&a[k])
+//@ ensures forall k int :: 0 <= k && k < len(a) ==> acc(&a[k])
+//@ ensures forall p, q int :: 0 <= p && p < q && q < len(a) ==> a[p] <= a[q]
+func Selection(a []int) {
+ i := 0
+ //@ invariant 0 <= i && i <= len(a)
+ //@ invariant forall k int :: 0 <= k && k < len(a) ==> acc(&a[k])
+ // a[0..i) is sorted...
+ //@ invariant forall p, q int :: 0 <= p && p < q && q < i ==> a[p] <= a[q]
+ // ...and every prefix element is <= every suffix element.
+ //@ invariant forall p, q int :: 0 <= p && p < i && i <= q && q < len(a) ==> a[p] <= a[q]
+ for i < len(a) {
+ min := i
+ j := i + 1
+ //@ invariant i < len(a) && i+1 <= j && j <= len(a)
+ //@ invariant i <= min && min < len(a)
+ //@ invariant forall k int :: 0 <= k && k < len(a) ==> acc(&a[k])
+ // a[min] is the smallest of the scanned suffix a[i..j).
+ //@ invariant forall k int :: i <= k && k < j ==> a[min] <= a[k]
+ // The outer invariants still hold (the inner loop reads only).
+ //@ invariant forall p, q int :: 0 <= p && p < q && q < i ==> a[p] <= a[q]
+ //@ invariant forall p, q int :: 0 <= p && p < i && i <= q && q < len(a) ==> a[p] <= a[q]
+ for j < len(a) {
+ if a[j] < a[min] {
+ min = j
+ }
+ j = j + 1
+ }
+ if min != i {
+ tmp := a[i]
+ a[i] = a[min]
+ a[min] = tmp
+ }
+ i = i + 1
+ }
+}