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Subject: Re: Hypothetical possibilities --- stupid rebuttal
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:20:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Am Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:20:53 -0500 schrieb olcott:
> On 7/28/2024 3:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 2024-07-27 14:45:21 +0000, olcott said:
>>> On 7/27/2024 9:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 7/27/2024 1:54 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>>> If a simulator correctly simulates a finite number of instructions
>>>>>> where x86 program specifies an execution of an infinite number of
>>>>>> instructions then the simulation deviates from x86 semantics at the
>>>>>> point where the simulation stops but the x86 semantics specify
>>>>>> countinuation.
>>>>
>>>>> In other words you believe that instead of recognizing a non-halting
>>>>> behavior pattern, then aborting the simulation and rejecting the
>>>>> input as non-halting the termination analyzer should just get stuck
>>>>> in recursive simulation?
>>>>
>>>> You're doing it again.  "In other words" is here a lie; you've just
>>>> replaced Mikko's words with something very different.
>>>>
>>> He just said that the simulation of a non-terminating input is
>>> incorrect unless it is simulated forever.
That is right.

>> I said it deviates form the x86 semantics. I didn't say whether it is
>> incorrect to deviate from x86 semantics. But it is incorrect to say
>> "off topic" on the basis of not following x86 semantics when your "on
>> topic" deviates from the x86 semantics as much as what I ask about in
>> my "off topic" question.
>> 
> It does not freaking deviate from the semantics for DDD to be correctly
> emulated by HHH
>      until HHH correctly determines that its emulated DDD would never
>      stop running unless aborted...
"Until". By which point it does deviate, by not continuing a halting
simulation and not returning that it halts.

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Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math:
It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.