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   olcott to All   
   One key aspect of the halting problem it   
   24 Sep 25 09:59:06   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.c   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   Deciders have always been defined to compute the   
   mapping from their inputs verifying whether or not   
   this input specifies a semantic or syntactic property.   
   The input to a C function is its arguments.   
      
   typedef int (*ptr)();   
   int HHH(ptr P);   
      
   int DD()   
   {   
      int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);   
      if (Halt_Status)   
        HERE: goto HERE;   
      return Halt_Status;   
   }   
      
   int main()   
   {   
      DD();   
      return 0;   
   }   
      
   The actual executing process of DD() above cannot   
   possibly be an argument to the HHH(DD) that it calls.   
      
   HHH gets the machine address of a finite string of x86   
   machine code that is *not exactly one-and-the-same-thing*   
   as the executing process of main()-->DD() shown above.   
      
   The Halting Problem is itself a mere bogus ruse because   
   it requires a halt decider to report on something other   
   than the semantic property of its actual input. That is   
   just not the way that Turing machine deciders actually work.   
      
      
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