Re: any emulation docs ?

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On Aug 23, 2:42 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:


> > No system ever built, past, present or future, has *full*
> > documentation.
>
> What you say apply only to real systems, i.e. systems already
> implemented in hardware.  But kestas wanted to write an emulator of
> "any system", i.e. not necessarily any existing system.  That makes him
> free to invent any system he wants, produce documentation as

I was about to applaud your well-constructed semantic argument when I
realized that I'm still right because of the loophole I built into my
statement: no system ever _built_. Not limited to hardware systems,
either :)

The OP can design a system to any arbitrary level of detail on paper,
but as soon as he implements it there will be environmental factors
that push system behavior out of the scope of his design. For example,
the JVM spec is utterly silent on what the JVM should do if every
third byte of RAM is randomly overwritten with the text of the Iliad.