Module Axioms


This file collects some axioms used throughout the CompCert development.

Require ClassicalFacts.

Extensionality axioms


The following Require Export gives us functional extensionality for dependent function types:
Axiom functional_extensionality_dep : forall {A} {B : A -> Type}, 
  forall (f g : forall x : A, B x), 
  (forall x, f x = g x) -> f = g.
and, as a corollary, functional extensionality for non-dependent functions:
Lemma functional_extensionality {A B} (f g : A -> B) : 
  (forall x, f x = g x) -> f = g.
Require Export FunctionalExtensionality.

For compatibility with earlier developments, extensionality is an alias for functional_extensionality.

Lemma extensionality:
  forall (A B: Type) (f g : A -> B), (forall x, f x = g x) -> f = g.
Proof.
intros; apply functional_extensionality. auto. Qed.

Implicit Arguments extensionality.

We also assert propositional extensionality.

Axiom prop_ext: ClassicalFacts.prop_extensionality.
Implicit Arguments prop_ext.

Proof irrelevance


We also use proof irrelevance, which is a consequence of propositional extensionality.

Lemma proof_irr: ClassicalFacts.proof_irrelevance.
Proof.
  exact (ClassicalFacts.ext_prop_dep_proof_irrel_cic prop_ext).
Qed.
Implicit Arguments proof_irr.