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  • Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very StupidMistake or Liars

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ on Thu Mar 13 10:04:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c++

    void DDD()
    {
    HHH(DDD);
    return;
    }

    When HHH correctly emulates N steps of the
    above DDD it cannot possibly reach its own
    "return" instruction and terminate normally.

    On 3/13/2025 8:55 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 3/13/2025 9:41 AM, olcott wrote:
    I created DDD because
    some of my reviewers are not technically competent
    enough to see that line 2 of DD is unreachable code
    when N steps of DD are correctly simulated by HHH.


    But it *is* reachable code when DD is executed directly,

    Because the directly executed code like DDD correctly
    emulated by HHH1
    DOES NOT HAVE THE PATHOLOGICAL SELF-REFERENCE OF
    CALLING ITS OWN EMULATOR YOU NITWIT.

    It is like you really really believe that sum(2,3) == 7
    even though the sum of 2 + 3 == 5.
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