International Obfuscated C Code Tattoo

Posted by michael on Thursday January 20, 2005 @07:01AM from the now-typo-free dept.

chongo writes "Some people eschew obfuscation while other live for it. Thomas Scovell has taken obfuscation to a completely new personal level by obtaining the very first International Obfuscated C Code Tattoo. We (the IOCCC Judges) are pleased that Thomas has honored the 1984 anonymous IOCCC winning entry by placing the source code on his arm: the very first IOCCC winner to receive this distinction. The anonymous winner (a person who known for various things on the Internet and has been programming in and associated with C for decades) feels honored by the tattoo as well."

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Re:entry explained by Smallpond · 2005-01-21 04:24 · Score: 2, Insightful

Global variables have to be initialized in a multiuser operating system. Otherwise you could allocate big arrays and scan through them for other people's data. The stack is (supposedly) less interesting.