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Per the GCC documentation the builtin returns its first argument and lets the compiler assume the returned pointer's alignment (with an optional misalignment offset in the variadic part). Model the identity value flow; do not assume or assert the alignment claim, which keeps the model conservative for verification.

Previously any call yielded "no body for callee
__builtin_assume_aligned" and a nondet return value, which poisoned every pointer flowing through libc++'s
std::__1::__assume_aligned/__add_alignment_assumption chain (used throughout vector's allocation path; seen in the
libcxx23_vector_pushback KNOWNBUG carrier).

The regression/cbmc-library test is required by the ansi-c target's library-check completeness gate and is included in this commit so every tree state builds.

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Per the GCC documentation the builtin returns its first argument and
lets the compiler assume the returned pointer's alignment (with an
optional misalignment offset in the variadic part).  Model the
identity value flow; do not assume or assert the alignment claim,
which keeps the model conservative for verification.

Previously any call yielded "no body for callee
__builtin_assume_aligned" and a nondet return value, which poisoned
every pointer flowing through libc++'s
std::__1::__assume_aligned/__add_alignment_assumption chain (used
throughout vector's allocation path; seen in the
libcxx23_vector_pushback KNOWNBUG carrier).

The regression/cbmc-library test is required by the ansi-c target's
library-check completeness gate and is included in this commit so
every tree state builds.

Co-authored-by: Kiro <kiro-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
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