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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DDD correctly emulated by HHH --- Correct Emulation Defined
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:43:34 -0500
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On 3/20/2025 4:16 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2025-03-20 02:32:43 +0000, olcott said:
> 
>> DDD()
>> [00002172] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
>> [00002173] 8bec       mov  ebp,esp  ; housekeeping
>> [00002175] 6872210000 push 00002172 ; push DDD
>> [0000217a] e853f4ffff call 000015d2 ; call HHH(DDD)
>> [0000217f] 83c404     add  esp,+04
>> [00002182] 5d         pop  ebp
>> [00002183] c3         ret
>> Size in bytes:(0018) [00002183]
>>
>> When N steps of DDD are emulated by HHH according
>> to the semantics of the x86 language then these
>> N steps are emulated correctly.
> 
> That does not make much sense to define the correct emulation of DDD as
> it should mean whatever "correct emulation" means when applied to DDD.
> 
> Althouth promised otherwise on the subject line the meaning of "DDD
> correctly emulated by HHH" when N is not specified is not defined.
> 

N in this context always means any element of the
set of natural numbers.

1,2,3...4,294,967,296 steps of DDD are correctly emulated
by HHH and DDD never reaches its "ret" instruction and
terminates normally.

> The term should be or include "partial emulation" when the intent is
> that an emulation that could be continued is not is called "correct".
> 

A finite number of N steps means a finite emulation.

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