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A bit limited ?

Is this task to be taken literally - halt the CPU - and thus only be applicable to the handful of assembly languages with samples already provided ?
Or does it mean "crash the program" by e.g. dividing by zero or asserting a false condition or raising an unhandled exception or calling exit or...

Whilst reading about the fictitios HCF instruction was entertaining, do we want to encourage people to crash their CPUs ?

--Tigerofdarkness (talk) 21:02, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I didn't see that the task was to halt the CPU, but to crash the (computer) program. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 21:09, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Gerard. What does your impressively minimal REXX program do ? --Tigerofdarkness (talk) 17:24, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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	: I didn't see that the task was to   ''halt the CPU'',   but to   ''crash the (computer) program''.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger\|talk]]) 21:09, 12 September 2021 (UTC)		: I didn't see that the task was to   ''halt the CPU'',   but to   ''crash the (computer) program''.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger\|talk]]) 21:09, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

			::Thanks Gerard. What does your impressively minimal REXX program do ? --[[User:Tigerofdarkness\|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness\|talk]]) 17:24, 15 September 2021 (UTC)