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::::: That sort of thing briefly crossed my mind too, but it would be hardware-specific as opposed to programming-language-specific, and therefore somewhat against the primary purpose of this whole site (albeit the op deals primarily in hardware-specific programming languages). Like most everyone else I just assumed we were looking for an emergency "panic" that could be inserted into any other program, and only triggered when some critical test failed, maybe the task should be changed to explicitly ask for that, eg
::::::"It should be possible to insert [a specified subset of] your submission into another program [written in the same language], presumably to help debug it."
:::::This sounds different from the original task. If the code just terminates the program, this is similar to the program termination task. I wonder if the only examples that completly fit the original task would be the 6502 and 68000 assembly ones, since those work by crashing the CPU, not just by a halt instruction or an exit with error code.--[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 17:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
:::::The task also asks for the minimum number of lines rather than minimum number of characters, btw. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 12:27, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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