On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 20:49:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Most architectures I've used supported a HLT, and there's always something the back end could construct if it had to, even:

     ...
     call halt
     ...

I am pretty sure on my x86_64 Linux `assert(0)` results in termination via SIGILL (Illegal Instruction). Well, it is still a hard crash so no big deal but probably in not an expected way.

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