Talk:Halt and catch fire: Difference between revisions

Is this task to be taken literally - halt the CPU - and thus only be applicable only to the handful of assembly languages with samples already provided ?

<br>Or does it mean "crash the program" by e.g. dividinghdividing by zero or asserting a false condition or raising an unhandled exception or calling exit or...<br><br>

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