Movement against float.init being nan

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 04:05:21AM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Also, the semantics of "hlt" is not to terminate anything at all, it
> just waits for the next interrupt to be fired. The only reason it
> crashes in user space is that it requires ring 0 access.

Hmm. I was pretty sure the convention, at least on x86 architectures, is
that hlt in userspace is a signal to the OS that the program has
terminated itself (usually abnormally, since normal termination is
usually via the exit syscall, at least on Posix).


T

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