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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Any honest person that knows the x86 language can see... predict
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:51:13 -0500
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On 7/31/2024 10:08 PM, wij wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 18:50 -0500, olcott wrote:
>>
>> It is not supposed to be a general solution to the halting problem.
>> it only shows how the "impossible" input is correctly determined
>> to be non halting.
>>
> 
> But how do you determine it is non-halting?
> 
> As I know you are even unable to define what 'halt' mean !!!
>
I have done this thousands of times and after someone
has read these thousands of times they say that I never
said it once.

void DDD()
{
   HHH(DDD);
   return;
}

int main()
{
   HHH(DDD);
}

If DDD correctly emulated by HHH cannot possibly
reach its return instruction then it never halts.


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