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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
 correctly
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 06:51:45 -0500
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On 8/1/2024 2:46 AM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
> Op 01.aug.2024 om 05:51 schreef olcott:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> But a correct simulation is impossible.

When HHH does what-ever-the-hell the x86 semantics specifies
then HHH is correct.


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