Re: Halting Problem: What Constitutes Pathological Input

On 5/7/25 11:48 AM, olcott wrote:

On 5/7/2025 3:54 AM, Mikko wrote:

On 2025-05-06 18:05:15 +0000, olcott said:
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That everyone here thinks that HHH can simply ignore
the rules of the x86 language and jump over the "call"
instruction to the "ret" instruction seems quite stupid
to me.

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The halting problem does not prohibit such skip so in that sense
it is OK.
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However, in order to correctly determine whether DD halts
it may need to know whether the called HHH returns and what it
returns if it does.
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The call from DD emulated by HHH cannot possibly return.

 Only because HHH can't be a correct emulator.