[gecode-users] fzn-gecode -mode gist and variable names

Mats Carlsson matsc at sics.se
Thu Aug 11 09:28:26 CEST 2016


Is there a way to _tell_ fzn-gecode to use free search and to ignore any
search annotation?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Guido Tack <guido.tack at monash.edu> wrote:

> The -f command line option is actually a no-op, it’s just there to
> maintain compatibility with the MiniZinc challenge (the specification is
> that you /may/ ignore the search annotation, not that you /must/…).
>
> Cheers,
> Guido
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> On 11 Aug 2016, at 5:06 PM, Mats Carlsson <matsc at sics.se> wrote:
>
> Thanks Guido. I need this in a context with free search, and by the way
> another unfortunate thing about fzn-gecode is that any search annotation
> seems to disable the -f flag.
> So free search seems incompatible with Gist showing variable names... What
> a pity. I hope that you will return to these points eventually.
>
> Keep up the good work,
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Guido Tack <guido.tack at monash.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mats,
>>
>> this is a limitation in the current fzn-gecode interpreter, we can only
>> get variable names for variables that are mentioned in a search
>> annotation.  So currently the only workaround is to include all variables
>> in some search annotation (but of course I understand that that’s not
>> necessarily what you want to do).  I had a look at fixing this at some
>> point, but it turned out to be more than just a few lines of code so I had
>> to leave it for the time being.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Guido
>>
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>> *GUIDO TACK*
>> Senior Lecturer
>>
>> *Information Technology*
>> Monash University
>> Level 6, Room 6.40, Building H, Caulfield Campus
>> 900 Dandenong Road
>> Caulfield East VIC 3145
>> Australia
>>
>> T: +61 3 9903 1214
>> E: guido.tack at monash.edu
>> http://www.csse.monash.edu/~guidot/
>>
>>
>> On 19 Jul 2016, at 6:39 PM, Mats Carlsson <matsc at sics.se> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I have a problem with fzn-gecode -mode gist, Gecode trunk 14847,
>> MiniZinc 2.0.13.
>> Namely, anonymous variable names like var[123] get displayed instead of
>> the variable names of the .fzn file.  Admittedly, the latter names are a
>> bit awkward, but at least they enable me to relate back to the names of the
>> MiniZinc model.  But I have no idea how to map the var[...] names to the
>> names of the .fzn file. I have tried to edit the .fzn file in various ways
>> to make Gist use its names, but it has not helped.  Is there some
>> work-around?
>>
>> See the attachment for an example.
>>
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