Lemmas about sign-bit flips (b ^^^ signMask) #
The executable IEEE32 kernel implements negation by flipping the sign bit of the underlying
UInt32 encoding. For many proofs (finite/special classification, interval soundness, bridge
lemmas) we need the basic fact that this operation does not affect the exponent or fraction
fields.
This file centralizes those bit-manipulation lemmas for the large proof modules.
Flipping the sign bit of a float32 encoding does not affect its exponent field.
We use this to show that IEEE32Exec.neg preserves the “finite vs NaN/Inf” classification, because
NaN/Inf are detected from exponent+fraction (not from sign).
Flipping the sign bit of a float32 encoding does not affect its fraction field.
This complements expField_ofBits_xor_signMask: NaN payload bits are unchanged.