The 2006 Underhanded C Contest Begins

Xcott Craver writes "The second annual Underhanded C Code Contest is live as of April 4th, and runs until July 4th. The object is to write malicious C code that looks perfectly readable and innocent under informal inspection of the source."

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Re:I love this

[Fizzl]

Heh, I've been ranting for years how I love C and C++ and how Java and pretty much all other higher level languages suck. I think they are ment just for crybabies who can't handle pointers and get confused while tying their shoelaces.
I actually just thought that I'll whip something up for the contest. You know, first I'll just make the basic program and try to figure out how to sneak something in. It took me 10 minutes to realize that I have no fucking clue what I'm doing.

"How do I read from stdin?"
"How do I allocate without too much overhead for it?"
"Wait, I really shouldn't be doing this in the main function. Perhaps I'll make a separate function. Now, hmm.. How do I define a function which takes a reference to an array of char pointers, and what else do I need to know to reallocate the array"
"Oh right. It also needs to be separated by spaces too, not just newlines"
"I wish there was a nice library function 'char *readfile(stream)' in ANSI C"
"Shit. Real programming is hard!"

I hereby turn in my coding gloves, and don the pink fluffy Java gloves I have actually worn for some time against my will.