Section effsemlemmas.
Context {C:Type} (Sem: @EffectSem C).
Fixpoint effstepN (n:nat) : (block -> Z -> bool) -> C -> mem -> C -> mem -> Prop :=
match n with
| O => fun U c m c' m' => (c,m) = (c',m') /\ U = (fun b z => false)
| S k => fun U c1 m1 c3 m3 => exists c2, exists m2, exists U1, exists U2,
effstep Sem U1 c1 m1 c2 m2 /\
effstepN k U2 c2 m2 c3 m3 /\
U = (fun b z => U1 b z || (U2 b z && valid_block_dec m1 b))
end.

Lemma effstep_star_zero: forall c m, effstep_star (fun b z =>false) c m c m.