Re: Any honest person that knows the x86 language can see... predict correctly

Op 01.aug.2024 om 13:51 schreef olcott:

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:

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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.
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But how do you determine it is non-halting?
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As I know you are even unable to define what 'halt' mean !!!
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I have done this thousands of times and after someone
has read these thousands of times they say that I never
said it once.
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void DDD()
{
   HHH(DDD);
   return;
}
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int main()
{
   HHH(DDD);
}
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If DDD correctly emulated by HHH cannot possibly
reach its return instruction then it never halts.
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But a correct simulation is impossible.

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When HHH does what-ever-the-hell the x86 semantics specifies
then HHH is correct.
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 But since HHH deviates from the semantics of the x86 language (by skipping instructions of a halting  program) it is incorrect.