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     1 (*<*)
       
     2 theory CodeGen imports Main begin
       
     3 (*>*)
       
     4 
       
     5 section{*Case Study: Compiling Expressions*}
       
     6 
       
     7 text{*\label{sec:ExprCompiler}
       
     8 \index{compiling expressions example|(}%
       
     9 The task is to develop a compiler from a generic type of expressions (built
       
    10 from variables, constants and binary operations) to a stack machine.  This
       
    11 generic type of expressions is a generalization of the boolean expressions in
       
    12 \S\ref{sec:boolex}.  This time we do not commit ourselves to a particular
       
    13 type of variables or values but make them type parameters.  Neither is there
       
    14 a fixed set of binary operations: instead the expression contains the
       
    15 appropriate function itself.
       
    16 *}
       
    17 
       
    18 type_synonym 'v binop = "'v \<Rightarrow> 'v \<Rightarrow> 'v";
       
    19 datatype ('a,'v)expr = Cex 'v
       
    20                      | Vex 'a
       
    21                      | Bex "'v binop"  "('a,'v)expr"  "('a,'v)expr";
       
    22 
       
    23 text{*\noindent
       
    24 The three constructors represent constants, variables and the application of
       
    25 a binary operation to two subexpressions.
       
    26 
       
    27 The value of an expression with respect to an environment that maps variables to
       
    28 values is easily defined:
       
    29 *}
       
    30 
       
    31 primrec "value" :: "('a,'v)expr \<Rightarrow> ('a \<Rightarrow> 'v) \<Rightarrow> 'v" where
       
    32 "value (Cex v) env = v" |
       
    33 "value (Vex a) env = env a" |
       
    34 "value (Bex f e1 e2) env = f (value e1 env) (value e2 env)"
       
    35 
       
    36 text{*
       
    37 The stack machine has three instructions: load a constant value onto the
       
    38 stack, load the contents of an address onto the stack, and apply a
       
    39 binary operation to the two topmost elements of the stack, replacing them by
       
    40 the result. As for @{text"expr"}, addresses and values are type parameters:
       
    41 *}
       
    42 
       
    43 datatype ('a,'v) instr = Const 'v
       
    44                        | Load 'a
       
    45                        | Apply "'v binop";
       
    46 
       
    47 text{*
       
    48 The execution of the stack machine is modelled by a function
       
    49 @{text"exec"} that takes a list of instructions, a store (modelled as a
       
    50 function from addresses to values, just like the environment for
       
    51 evaluating expressions), and a stack (modelled as a list) of values,
       
    52 and returns the stack at the end of the execution --- the store remains
       
    53 unchanged:
       
    54 *}
       
    55 
       
    56 primrec exec :: "('a,'v)instr list \<Rightarrow> ('a\<Rightarrow>'v) \<Rightarrow> 'v list \<Rightarrow> 'v list"
       
    57 where
       
    58 "exec [] s vs = vs" |
       
    59 "exec (i#is) s vs = (case i of
       
    60     Const v  \<Rightarrow> exec is s (v#vs)
       
    61   | Load a   \<Rightarrow> exec is s ((s a)#vs)
       
    62   | Apply f  \<Rightarrow> exec is s ((f (hd vs) (hd(tl vs)))#(tl(tl vs))))"
       
    63 
       
    64 text{*\noindent
       
    65 Recall that @{term"hd"} and @{term"tl"}
       
    66 return the first element and the remainder of a list.
       
    67 Because all functions are total, \cdx{hd} is defined even for the empty
       
    68 list, although we do not know what the result is. Thus our model of the
       
    69 machine always terminates properly, although the definition above does not
       
    70 tell us much about the result in situations where @{term"Apply"} was executed
       
    71 with fewer than two elements on the stack.
       
    72 
       
    73 The compiler is a function from expressions to a list of instructions. Its
       
    74 definition is obvious:
       
    75 *}
       
    76 
       
    77 primrec compile :: "('a,'v)expr \<Rightarrow> ('a,'v)instr list" where
       
    78 "compile (Cex v)       = [Const v]" |
       
    79 "compile (Vex a)       = [Load a]" |
       
    80 "compile (Bex f e1 e2) = (compile e2) @ (compile e1) @ [Apply f]"
       
    81 
       
    82 text{*
       
    83 Now we have to prove the correctness of the compiler, i.e.\ that the
       
    84 execution of a compiled expression results in the value of the expression:
       
    85 *}
       
    86 theorem "exec (compile e) s [] = [value e s]";
       
    87 (*<*)oops;(*>*)
       
    88 text{*\noindent
       
    89 This theorem needs to be generalized:
       
    90 *}
       
    91 
       
    92 theorem "\<forall>vs. exec (compile e) s vs = (value e s) # vs";
       
    93 
       
    94 txt{*\noindent
       
    95 It will be proved by induction on @{term"e"} followed by simplification.  
       
    96 First, we must prove a lemma about executing the concatenation of two
       
    97 instruction sequences:
       
    98 *}
       
    99 (*<*)oops;(*>*)
       
   100 lemma exec_app[simp]:
       
   101   "\<forall>vs. exec (xs@ys) s vs = exec ys s (exec xs s vs)"; 
       
   102 
       
   103 txt{*\noindent
       
   104 This requires induction on @{term"xs"} and ordinary simplification for the
       
   105 base cases. In the induction step, simplification leaves us with a formula
       
   106 that contains two @{text"case"}-expressions over instructions. Thus we add
       
   107 automatic case splitting, which finishes the proof:
       
   108 *}
       
   109 apply(induct_tac xs, simp, simp split: instr.split);
       
   110 (*<*)done(*>*)
       
   111 text{*\noindent
       
   112 Note that because both \methdx{simp_all} and \methdx{auto} perform simplification, they can
       
   113 be modified in the same way as @{text simp}.  Thus the proof can be
       
   114 rewritten as
       
   115 *}
       
   116 (*<*)
       
   117 declare exec_app[simp del];
       
   118 lemma [simp]: "\<forall>vs. exec (xs@ys) s vs = exec ys s (exec xs s vs)"; 
       
   119 (*>*)
       
   120 apply(induct_tac xs, simp_all split: instr.split);
       
   121 (*<*)done(*>*)
       
   122 text{*\noindent
       
   123 Although this is more compact, it is less clear for the reader of the proof.
       
   124 
       
   125 We could now go back and prove @{prop"exec (compile e) s [] = [value e s]"}
       
   126 merely by simplification with the generalized version we just proved.
       
   127 However, this is unnecessary because the generalized version fully subsumes
       
   128 its instance.%
       
   129 \index{compiling expressions example|)}
       
   130 *}
       
   131 (*<*)
       
   132 theorem "\<forall>vs. exec (compile e) s vs = (value e s) # vs";
       
   133 by(induct_tac e, auto);
       
   134 end
       
   135 (*>*)