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2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-masochist-in-you dept.

Langly writes "The IOCCC have finally released their source code for 2004. My thoughts goes out to the poor guys that actually wrote this code. Reader discretion is advised." Every time I see an obfuscated code contest, I wonder if 'Winner' is the right word to describe the victor ;)

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  1. Mirrors by mozingod · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google cache with different mirrors across the globe: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:LAIfxt7dfOEJ: www.ioccc.org/+ioccc&hl=en

  2. Re:Great article summaries lately... by RPI+Geek · · Score: 2, Informative

    International Obfuscated C Code Contest (I think).

    This groups releases a challenge each year that the entrants have to solve using the most obfuscated C code possible. They judge tne entries and award prizes to the best of the worst. Previous entries have used the precompiler to do much of the work, eliminated brackets and spaces, hacked the stack, and generally used many other tricks to complete the challenge.

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    - "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
  3. Official IOCCC mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    IOCCC Mirrors

    Asia


    Europe

    North America
  4. Re:Mirror this already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are several mirrors. I know, I run one of them. Why the submitter hardcoded the us one is beyond me.

    • Antarctica
      none yet :-)
    • Africa
      none
    • Australia and other Pacific
    • www.au.ioccc.org - Sydney, Australia (34 0' S 151 0' E)
    • Extraterrestrial
      SETI is looking for some sites :-)
    • South America
      none
  5. Mirrors ... by foobsr · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.de.ioccc.org/years.html#2004

    also tw, au, es, www1.us

    CC.

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    TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
  6. Re:frist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Various standard C library functions are known to the compiler, and the compiler is allowed to optimise them. For example, here's a little trick. If you compile:

    printf("Hello\n");

    With max opt, GCC will convert it into:

    puts("Hello");

    How cool is that? You've saved one byte in your string and called a much quicker/smaller function!

  7. Another mirror by DoctorEternal · · Score: 3, Informative

    HERE

  8. Re:Obfuscated webserver by achowe · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yes. I wrote it and I'm rather proud of that entry. You can see it working here:
    http://hibachi.snert.org:8008/
    Version 2.1, the Unobfuscated Posix Windows threaded version will be released sometime soon. If anyone is interested in testing it, email me.
  9. Re:frist? by BreadMan · · Score: 3, Informative

    For GCC, at least, the entry point as far as Linux is concerned is _init, defined in /usr/lib/crti.o.

    _init opens the standard file descriptors, gathers the command line arguments and does a but of housekeeping before calling main, your program's entry point. GCC links to this by default; but you can change this if necessary, for instance an embedded project running without an OS would need very different initialization code, and for that matter it could define the entry point of the application as something other than main().

    If you want to see what GCC is doing for a compilation, try

    gcc =### x.c

    And you'll be able to see what gcc passes to the underlying tools to pre-process, compile, assemble and link.

  10. Re:Great article summaries lately... by Coryoth · · Score: 2, Informative
    And best of all, that ridiculous code is REALLY AMAZINGLY POWERFUL in many cases.

    I only looked at the first entry, anonymous.c. It's 47 utterly incomprehensible lines. What it does is convert text into one of Tolkien's Elvish fonts

    I was fairly impressed with Gavin.c. It's 165 lines of nicely indented/formatted C code that's pretty much incomprehensible. What does it do? It's a 32 bit multitasking operating system complete with a GUI, a shell, and a text viewer called vi.

    Or perhaps Vik1.c - 63 lines (including a comment :-), that when compiled gives you an X11 racing game. But check out the feature list:

    • Drive on a road in a 3-d landscape with hills and curves
    • Mountains in the horizon
    • A sun in the sky when driving during the day.
    • Dark sky and reduced visibility when driving at night.
    • Snow when driving in the winter.
    • Slippery road when driving in the winter.
    • When driving off the road, the car slows down to a halt
    • Three different race tracks that takes about one minute to complete.
    • Speed meter.
    • Computer driven opponent cars.
    • Collision detection when driving into other cars.
    • Lap time measurement.
    • The best lap time is stored as reference.


    Not bad for 63 lines of C code.

    Jedidiah.
    --
    Craft Beer Programming T-shirts
  11. Re:Is This Necessary? by Nicolay77 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, then you should know that Larry Wall was a winner of the IOCCC in 1987.

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    We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.