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I believe they're also used for verifying potential new compiler optimizations: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/247

Check out the SAT competition for state of the art solvers: http://www.satcompetition.org/



They can also be used to do the actual optimizations. For example most formulations of the register allocation problem are NP-complete. SMT formulas can be used as a very powerful abstract domain in abstract interpretation.




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