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From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
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Subject: Re: Why I need to cross-post to comp.lang.c
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 08:30:54 -0400
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On 5/10/25 6:10 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 10/05/2025 08:15, Mikko wrote:
>> On 2025-05-09 03:01:40 +0000, olcott said:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Now you are seeing what I was talking about.
>>> Now you are seeing why I needed to cross post
>>> to comp.lang.c
>>
>> What were you told in comp.lang.c that you were not told in comp.theory?
> 
> The good folks in comp.lang.c don't have a lot of time for this guy 
> these days.
> 
> But if they had the patience to take a long hard look at his code, they 
> would tell him rather more than he cares to know about just how broken 
> it is.
> 

It has already been pointed out that his code just violates what he says 
about it. It fundamentally can not be made into a "Pure Function" 
without major changes as it looks into global memory for a value 
initialized by the run time to determine if it is the "outer" version of 
the decider, or an inner version supposedly being simulated by it.