Re: Termination analyzer defined

On 11/05/24 02:30, olcott wrote:

A termination analyzer is different than a halt decider in that it need
not correctly determine the halt status of every input. For the purposes
of this paper a termination analyzer only needs to correctly determine
the halt status of one terminating input and one non-terminating input.
The computer science equivalent would be a halt decider with a limited
domain that includes at least one halting and one non-halting input.
 

The halting problem asks whether there is a program that does correctly determine the halt status of every input. If there are no halt deciders and only termination analyzers, the answer is "no".
By the way, this is a termination analyzer in C:
bool terminates(ptr program, ptr input) {
     return !memcmp(program, "SQUIRREL", 8);
}