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Most of those undocumented instructions are what in C would be called "implementation defined behaviour" and have properly defined results, they might just differ between specific CPU models. There's only a very small number of unstable instructions which have unpredictable results (caused by "cross talk" due to incomplete instruction decoding).


Halting the CPU would also generally have to be modelled as undefined behaviour in the standard.




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