Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid Mistake and Liars

On 12/03/2025 02:33, dbush wrote:

On 3/11/2025 10:33 PM, olcott wrote:

<snip>

Replacing the code of HHH with an unconditional simulator and subsequently running HHH(DD) cannot
possibly f-cking halt no f-cking matter what.
>

 Obviously, so what's the next step?

To show that it provides the correct answer for other functions. This he has not yet done. Of course, it's not impossible to get a few right...
int halts(void(*p)())
{
   return 1;
}
will produce the right answer most of the time, but it's hardly a plausible way to overturn Turing's paper. OP's decision program has to get it right /every/ time. One failure proves that Olcott is wrong.
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