Usually, you do know something about the environment that your code runs in. But in the case that you don't, causing an exception (whether "undefined opcode" or

Usually, you do know something about the environment that your code runs in. But in the case that you don't, causing an exception (whether "undefined opcode" or anything else) can't be guaranteed to terminate the process, because some operating systems actually did use it for other purposes. The assembly language equivalent of nasal demons :) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041215-00/?p=37003 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041215-00/?p=37...