Release 2.5.0 of Cudd introduces the ability to set timeouts.  The
function that is interrupted returns NULL (which the application must
be prepared to handle,) but the BDDs are uncorrupted and the invoking
program can continue to use the manager.

In addition, reordering is now aware of timeouts, so that it gives up
when a timeout is approaching to give the invoking program a chance to
obtain some results.

The response time to the timeout is not immediate, though most of the time
it is well below one second.  Checking for timeouts has a small overhead.
In experiments, less than 1% has been observed on average.

Creation of BDD managers with many variables (e.g., tens or hundreds
of thousands) is now much more efficient.  Computing small supports of
BDDs when there are many variables is also much more efficient, but
this has been at the cost of separating the function for BDDs and ADDs
(Cudd_Support) from that for ZDDs (Cudd_zddSupport).

The C++ interface has undergone a major upgrade.

The handling of variable gruops in reordering has been much improved.
(Thanks to Arie Gurfinkel for a very detailed bug report!)  A handful
of other bugs have been fixed as well.


New Functions:

unsigned long Cudd_ReadStartTime(DdManager *unique);

unsigned long Cudd_ReadElapsedTime(DdManager *unique);

void Cudd_SetStartTime(DdManager *unique, unsigned long st);

void Cudd_ResetStartTime(DdManager *unique);

unsigned long Cudd_ReadTimeLimit(DdManager *unique);

void Cudd_SetTimeLimit(DdManager *unique, unsigned long tl);

void Cudd_UpdateTimeLimit(DdManager * unique);

void Cudd_IncreaseTimeLimit(DdManager * unique, unsigned long increase);

void Cudd_UnsetTimeLimit(DdManager *unique);

int Cudd_TimeLimited(DdManager *unique);

unsigned int Cudd_ReadMaxReorderings (DdManager *dd);

void Cudd_SetMaxReorderings (DdManager *dd, unsigned int mr);

unsigned int Cudd_ReadOrderRandomization(DdManager * dd);

void Cudd_SetOrderRandomization(DdManager * dd, unsigned int factor);

int Cudd_PrintGroupedOrder(DdManager * dd, const char *str, void *data);

int Cudd_EnableOrderingMonitoring(DdManager *dd);

int Cudd_DisableOrderingMonitoring(DdManager *dd);

int Cudd_OrderingMonitoring(DdManager *dd);

DdNode * Cudd_bddExistAbstractLimit(DdManager * manager, DdNode * f, DdNode * cube, unsigned int limit);

DdNode * Cudd_bddIteLimit (DdManager *dd, DdNode *f, DdNode *g, DdNode *h, unsigned int limit);

DdNode * Cudd_bddOrLimit (DdManager *dd, DdNode *f, DdNode *g, unsigned int limit);

DdNode * Cudd_bddXnorLimit (DdManager *dd, DdNode *f, DdNode *g, unsigned int limit);

int Cudd_CheckCube (DdManager *dd, DdNode *g);

DdNode * Cudd_bddMaximallyExpand(DdManager *dd, DdNode *lb, DdNode *ub, DdNode *f);

DdNode * Cudd_bddLargestPrimeUnate(DdManager *dd , DdNode *f, DdNode *phaseBdd);

int Cudd_Reserve(DdManager *manager, int amount);

int Cudd_SupportIndices(DdManager * dd, DdNode * f, int **indices);

int Cudd_VectorSupportIndices(DdManager * dd, DdNode ** F, int n, int **indices);

DdNode * Cudd_zddSupport(DdManager * dd, DdNode * f);


Changed prototypes:

unsigned int Cudd_ReadReorderings (DdManager *dd);

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Release 2.4.2 of Cudd features several bug fixes.  The most important
are those that prevented Cudd from making full use of up to 4 GB of
memory when using 32-bit pointers.  A handful of bugs were discovered by
Coverity.  (Thanks to Christian Stangier!)

This release can be compiled with either 64-bit pointers or 32-bit
pointers on x86_64 platforms if sizeof(long) = sizeof(void *) = 8 and
sizeof(int) = 4.  This is known as the LP64 model.  For 32-bit pointers,
one usually needs supplementary libraries.  On Ubuntu and Debian Linux,
one needs g++-multilib, which can be installed with
"apt-get install g++-multilib."

Added functions 

DdNode *Cudd_Inequality (DdManager * dd, int  N, int c, DdNode ** x,
DdNode ** y);

DdNode * Cudd_Disequality (DdManager * dd, int  N, int c, DdNode ** x,
DdNode ** y);

DdNode * Cudd_bddInterval (DdManager * dd, int  N, DdNode ** x,
unsigned int lowerB, unsigned int upperB);

Changed prototypes:

int Cudd_DumpBlif (DdManager *dd, int n, DdNode **f, char
**inames, char **onames, char *mname, FILE *fp, int mv);

int Cudd_DumpBlifBody (DdManager *dd, int n, DdNode **f, char
**inames, char **onames, FILE *fp, int mv);

The additional parameter allows the caller to choose between plain blif
and blif-MV.

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Release 2.4.1 of Cudd features one major change with respect to previous
releases.  The licensing terms are now explicitly stated.