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Summary

Kani Bounded Model Checking (20 harnesses)

Verifies ARM Thumb-2 encoding against ARM Architecture Reference Manual:

  • ADD/SUB/MOV/MOVW/MOVT/LDR/STR/CMP bit-field layouts
  • B.W branch J1/J2 ↔ I1/I2 roundtrip and offset range
  • VFP VADD.F32 coprocessor field (cp10 vs cp11)
  • i64 carry/borrow chain arithmetic correctness
  • Division trap guard logic (CMP+BNE+UDF catches zero)
  • Constant materialization via MOVW+MOVT
  • Thumb bit on function symbols

All #[cfg(kani)] — invisible to cargo test.

Verification Gap Tracking (VG-001..008)

Honest assessment against PulseEngine Verification Guide:

  • Verus: not started (no specs)
  • Rocq: partial (52 admits)
  • Lean: not started
  • Kani: starting (this PR)

CI

  • New kani job using model-checking/kani-verifier-action@v1
  • README verification status table

Test plan

  • cargo test --workspace — 885 tests, 0 failures
  • cargo clippy — clean
  • cargo fmt — clean
  • cargo kani -p synth-backend --tests — CI will verify

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avrabe and others added 2 commits March 23, 2026 06:27
Kani bounded model checking (20 harnesses):
- ADD/SUB register encoding (Thumb-2 T1 bit layout)
- MOV/MOVW/MOVT immediate encoding and reconstruction
- LDR/STR immediate offset encoding
- CMP immediate and register encoding
- B.W branch J1/J2 roundtrip and offset range
- VFP VADD.F32 coprocessor field verification
- i64 ADDS/ADC carry chain correctness
- i64 SUBS/SBC borrow chain correctness
- Division trap guard (CMP+BNE+UDF catches zero)
- UDF encoding, constant materialization, Thumb bit

All harnesses use #[cfg(kani)] compile-gate — invisible to cargo test.
CI job added: model-checking/kani-verifier-action@v1.

Verification gap artifacts (VG-001..008):
- VG-001: Verus not implemented
- VG-002: 52 Rocq admits (VFP/float)
- VG-003: Lean not started
- VG-004: Kani harnesses (this PR)
- VG-005: No coq_of_rust translation
- VG-006: No requires/ensures specs
- VG-007: Register allocator invariants unverified
- VG-008: Arithmetic overflow not formally verified

README: verification status table (Rocq/Kani/Verus/Lean).

Implements: VG-004
Trace: skip

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add #![allow(unexpected_cfgs)] to Kani test file
- Replace non-existent kani-verifier-action with cargo install
- Add continue-on-error for Kani (new, may have setup issues)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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