uh..yeah. The halting problem doesn’t mean you can’t do termination checking. It just means there’s no general algorithm for deciding if a machine halts. We on

uh..yeah. The halting problem doesn’t mean you can’t do termination checking. It just means there’s no general algorithm for deciding if a machine halts. We only care about the specific subset of programs that the compiler is able to prove properties about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis