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Whilst reading about the fictitios HCF instruction was entertaining, do we want to encourage people to crash their CPUs ?<br><br> |
Whilst reading about the fictitios HCF instruction was entertaining, do we want to encourage people to crash their CPUs ?<br><br> |
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--[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 21:02, 12 September 2021 (UTC) |
--[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 21:02, 12 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) |
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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)