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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: D correctly simulated by H never halts
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 21:54:26 -0700
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On 5/28/2024 8:29 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/28/2024 10:05 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
[...]
>> too vague? Oh that is rich.
> 
> I had to start specifying the x86 language because dozens of reviewers
> believed that D correctly simulated by H was supposed to report on the
> behavior of non-input: int main() { D(D); }
> 
> It was only that I could show that this would require simulating
> the x86 instructions of D incorrectly or in the wrong order that
> I could prove that they were wrong. Their mistake was my primary
> rebuttal for two years.
> 

How do you simulate cmpxchg8b?