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tsm-lean

A Lean 4 formalization of a Tiny Stack Machine — third concrete kernel parallel to golang-lean (TGC) and octive-lean (TOC).

The substrate-level asymmetry: TGC and TOC have named variables. TSM has values living by position on a stack. Forces the cross-language abstraction to factor over "operand-access mechanism" instead of baking name-lookup into the framework. Maps directly to real bytecode targets — WebAssembly, JVM, CPython, .NET CIL, SECD.

Build

lake build

Run the demo

lake exe tsm-lean
# → final stack: [TsmLean.Core.Value.vInt 16]   ((5 + 3) * 2)
# → final pc: 5

Layout

Path What's there
TsmLean/Core/Syntax.lean Instr, Value, Code
TsmLean/Core/Semantics.lean State, step (function), MultiStep (relation)
TsmLean/Core/Determinism.lean step_deterministic, MultiStep.deterministic
TsmLean/Core/Eval.lean fuel-bounded run + run_sound
TsmLean/Core/Types.lean Ty, StackTy, HasTypeInstr
TsmLean/Core/TypeSoundness.lean HasTypeV, HasTypeStack
TsmLean/Core/Preservation.lean stack_preservation, progress
Main.lean demo program

Theorems proven

  • step_deterministic — single-step is functional.
  • MultiStep.deterministic — multi-step paths to halted states are unique.
  • run_sound — successful fuel-bounded execution corresponds to a MultiStep derivation ending at a halted state.
  • stack_preservation — if the stack matches an instruction's input type and the step succeeds, the post-stack matches its output type.
  • progress — well-typed non-halt instructions always make a step.

The first three are the operational counterparts of the big-step theorems in TGC and TOC. The last two are the small-step type-soundness theorems (Pierce-style), which TGC/TOC's big-step formulations don't have direct analogues for.

Zero sorries, axioms, or admits.

Status

v0.1: per-instruction (local) preservation. Global program-level type soundness — the JVM-style stackmap that ensures all reachable PCs have consistent stack types — is the next layer up.

Instruction set

push n   pushB b   pop   dup   swap
add  sub  mul   eq  lt
jmp k   jmpFalse k   halt

Twelve instructions. No call / ret yet — direct jumps only. Adding function-call frames is a future extension.