[klee-dev] rationale behind the parameters used in the KLEE OSDI paper

[Cristian Cadar]

Hi Lei,

Our choice was based on a high-level understanding of the Coreutils 
apps: most behavior can be triggered with no more than 2 short options, 
  1 long option, and 2 small files (one of which is stdin).

Best wishes,
Cristian

On 14/01/13 14:58, Lei Zhang wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are working on a possible way to improve KLEE. So it would be nice to
> compare our method's results with the original KLEE's. For a fair
> comparison, we need to understand how the parameters used in your
> OSDI'08 paper were chosen. According to your reply on the KLEE mailing
> list
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/klee-dev@imperial.ac.uk/msg00162.html),
> your OSDI paper uses
>
> --sym-args 0 1 10 --sym-args 0 2 2 --sym-files 2 8 --sym-stdout
>
> Could you unveil the rationale/intuition behind these settings, such
> like why 10 and 2 are used as the maximal lengths? Any help is highly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Lei
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Waterloo
> 200 University Avenue West
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
>
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