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With only one "Yes" vote - and that a bit dubious - It's a resounding "no".
The CCC OTD will resume on Tuesday.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that like politics where a failure to vote indicates a lack of caring?
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Yep. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hope this means I can have a bank holiday on Monday too!
Oh wait, the boss is away Monday, how's there's an idea...
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I was just working on some code with self referencing entities and I got my while loop all wrong.
Apparently, creating a few infinite loops in JavaScript and running them in Chrome crashes my external network device leaving me without an internet connection until I reconnect the device 
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I do embedded code here. The same mistake would have killed a few tester. 
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I remembering forcing that back in college on a VAX/VMS system...create an program with a counter, start a 'for' loop, jump out of it, display the counter.. and repeat.
How long would it take to pop the stack?
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VAX? For an experiment, I (and the security officer) ran the following three batch files (content displayed). The VMS system limited internal loops to 25 redundant iterations.
A.COM SUBMIT B
B.COM SUBMIT C
C.COM SUBMIT A
It was done after hours on Friday - right before the normal shutdown of the system.
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Yes, VAX/VMS... circa early '80s... long before OpenVMS.
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How long is an infinite loop?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Twice as long as half an infinite loop? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Since infinity x 2 is still infinity, then by extension half of infinity is also still infinity. 
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And extending that:
½ × ∞ × 2 ≡ ∞
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Longer than it needs to be.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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One less than ++(infiniteloop).
This space for rent
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Well, that's a piece of p***.
In C, it's 10 characters.
while(1){}
As for the question I presume you seek the answer to, how long will it run? Meh, someone else can take that.
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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I call your for(;;); with a jmp main+1Eh
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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But it's what for(;;); complies to in ASM with Visual C++. I know potato, potato.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Oh, of course. Hmm, given the ASM answer, I think it's time to pull out the Donald card and go for machine language. (2 bytes - EB FE)
00401000 - EB FE - JMP SHORT 00401000
From the days I used 16bit TASM regularly, I think you could write this as jmp $-2 or perhaps it was jmp @-2. I forget. I may be confusing TASM with MASM with NASM here.
Oh how the luxury of high-level languages spoils us.
Writing a huffman compressor/decompressor in asm to decompress the kernel is some er, 'fun'.
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Yup! You read my mind!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm still counting, will let you know when I get to the end.
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Ask Chuck Norris: he runs one first thing every morning.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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