Pull assumptions out of quantifiers if they don't refer to quantified variable#760
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When computing the non-global assumptions of a path condition layer, sometimes we will put assumptions in the body of the quantifier that don't actually depend on the quantified variables in any way.
Since there is a general issue in Silicon (especially with MCE) where sometimes some information is required to trigger a quantifier, but this information is only assumed inside that same quantifier, it is generally desirable to pull information out of quantifiers if possible. So here, we check if there are assumptions that don´t depend on the quantified variables, and if so, we pull them out of the quantifier and add them to the non-quantified global assumptions instead. This fixes one example in isssue #387 (but not all of them).
Logically, the resulting assumptions are completely equivalent, so it should not be possible to introduce any soundness issues this way.