Talk:Halt and catch fire
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)