Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: DD correctly emulated by HHH --- Totally ignoring invalid rebuttals Followup-To: comp.theory Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 21:50:12 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:50:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0de033b97a9a15f8622a43551d3a9ba"; logging-data="1672264"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kSJuKx3RbX5Dn7Bhw+Q6N" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:M6mEe+iByytn9cuHrkw7GZ4dadI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250303-10, 3/3/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2962 On 3/3/2025 9:33 PM, dbush wrote: > On 3/3/2025 10:07 PM, olcott wrote: >> int DD() >> { >>    int Halt_Status = HHH(DD); >>    if (Halt_Status) >>      HERE: goto HERE; >>    return Halt_Status; >> } >> >> _DD() >> [00002133] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping >> [00002134] 8bec       mov ebp,esp   ; housekeeping >> [00002136] 51         push ecx      ; make space for local >> [00002137] 6833210000 push 00002133 ; push DD >> [0000213c] e882f4ffff call 000015c3 ; call HHH(DD) >> [00002141] 83c404     add esp,+04 >> [00002144] 8945fc     mov [ebp-04],eax >> [00002147] 837dfc00   cmp dword [ebp-04],+00 >> [0000214b] 7402       jz 0000214f >> [0000214d] ebfe       jmp 0000214d >> [0000214f] 8b45fc     mov eax,[ebp-04] >> [00002152] 8be5       mov esp,ebp >> [00002154] 5d         pop ebp >> [00002155] c3         ret >> Size in bytes:(0035) [00002155] >> >> DD correctly emulated by HHH cannot possibly >> reach its own "ret" instruction and terminate normally. >> >> The only valid rebuttal is to show all of the steps of >> exactly how DD correctly emulated by HHH reaches its >> own "ret" instruction. >> > > Suppose we accept that HHH is able to correctly determine that replacing > the code of HHH with an unconditional simulator and running HHH(DD) will > not halt. > > Then what? That is not a valid rebuttal and your paraphrase of these words is inaccurate: DD correctly emulated by HHH cannot possibly reach its own "ret" instruction and terminate normally. -- Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer