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[olcott]

Only an ordinary understanding of C and software engineering is required.

#define ptr uintptr_t

int H(ptr p, ptr i); // simulating halt decider

H Simulates its input until it correctly predicts that this simulated
input would never terminate normally then rejects this input as non-halting.

void P(ptr x)
{
if (H(x, x))
HERE: goto HERE;
return;
}

int main()
{
Output("Input_Halts = ", H(P, P));
}

When the execution trace of function P() simulated by function H() shows:
(1) Function H() is called from P().
(2) With the same parameters to H().
(3) With no instructions in P() that could escape this infinitely
recursive simulation: {index jump, conditional branch, return}

Then the function call from P() to H() would never terminate normally.
In this case H aborts its simulation of P and rejects its input as
non-halting.

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[Mr Flibble]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:55:45 -0500
olcott <No...@NoWhere.com> wrote:

> Only an ordinary understanding of C and software engineering is
> required.
>
> #define ptr uintptr_t
>
> int H(ptr p, ptr i); // simulating halt decider
>
> H Simulates its input until it correctly predicts that this simulated
> input would never terminate normally then rejects this input as
> non-halting.
>
> void P(ptr x)
> {
> if (H(x, x))
> HERE: goto HERE;
> return;
> }
>
> int main()
> {
> Output("Input_Halts = ", H(P, P));
> }
>
> When the execution trace of function P() simulated by function H()
> shows: (1) Function H() is called from P().
> (2) With the same parameters to H().
> (3) With no instructions in P() that could escape this infinitely
> recursive simulation: {index jump, conditional branch, return}
>
> Then the function call from P() to H() would never terminate normally.
> In this case H aborts its simulation of P and rejects its input as
> non-halting.
>

Can you not post your crap to this newsgroup (comp.lang.c++) please?

And you seem to need reminding YET AGAIN of the following:

I have shown with my signaling halting decider there is no need for
a call to a simulation-based halting decider, H, from the input program
to be recursive; this is compatible with [Strachey 1965] and
associated proofs which are not recursive in nature. Your H is invalid
as it aborts the simulation to prevent infinite recursion rather than
returning an answer to its caller which results in it giving the wrong
answer for a non-pathological input that calls H.

/Flibble

[Keith Thompson]

Mr Flibble <fli...@reddwarf.jmc.corp> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:55:45 -0500
> olcott <No...@NoWhere.com> wrote:

[34 lines deleted]

>
> Can you not post your crap to this newsgroup (comp.lang.c++) please?

If you must reply to one of olcott's off-topic posts, don't quote
the entire post.

> And you seem to need reminding YET AGAIN of the following:

And don't invite him to post again by trying to continue the discussion
here.

[SNIP]

Followups redirected to comp.theory.

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */