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The PPK Tiny Programming Results

Posted by timothy on from the nano-nano dept.

mikemacd writes "As mentioned before the folks over at properkernel.com ran a programming challenge. The results are in. Hopefuly they will post code too."

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  1. Not a winner? by fava · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks like the winning entry actually does not output the required string. If you look at the winning entries code it is actually outputting the string:
    'The deep ' 0x0 0x1 0x0 ' gray mouse runs after the holy yellow cheese.' 0xA
    Where the 0x0 0x1 0x0 are required fields in the ELF header that splits the message into two halves. The output might appear to be correct when displayed on a terminal but if you redirect it to a file you will see the extra bytes.

    Modifying the code to not output the extra bytes would add 9 bytes to the program and it would larger than the next smallest binary, assuming that the 104 byte entry didn't use the same trick.