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Declarator |
hidden |
NAME
hidden -
for excluding global data from the state descriptor during verification.
DESCRIPTION
The keyword
hidden can be used to prefix the declaration of any global variable
to exclude the value of that variable from the definition
of the global system state.
The addition of this prefix can affect only the verification
process, by potentially changing the outcome of state matching
operations.
EXAMPLES
hidden byte a; hidden short p[3];
NOTES
The prefix should only be used for write-only scratch variables.
Alternatively, the predefined write-only scratch variable
_ (underscore) can always be used instead of a
hidden integer variable.
This mechanism can be used, for instance, to hide variables that are used as pseudo-local variables inside d_step sequences, provided that they are not used anywhere outside that sequence.
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