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From: Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp>
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:55:45 -0500
olcott <NoOne@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