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The 2006 Underhanded C Contest Begins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the segmentation-fault-core-dumped dept.

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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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hahahaha suckers you lose

  2. Time to break out emacs by liliafan · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think I should take the time to do this, this year I will write a program for linux and make it run slow on windows.........oh wait it does that anyway.

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  3. #irc.tRo7ltalk.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you got there. Or FreeBSD 4t about 80

  4. My Fav by W33B · · Score: 0, Troll

    10 Print "Losers"
    20 GOTO 10
    Run

  5. Re:I love this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "How do I read from stdin?"
    You can't be serious. Try "cin >> var_name" or use getline. Come on, you learn that in CS 100.

    "How do I allocate without too much overhead for it?"
    Allocate what?

    "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"
    Ahh, allocate an array? Well, in C, arrays are statically sized, but you could create a new, larger one and copy a full one into it. Or you could use the vector data type from the C++ STL. Again, often learned in CS 100.

    "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"
    Again, try getline. Really, none of this is hard, unless I miss your intentions.

    "Shit. Real programming is hard!"

    Are you sure you're a real programmer? I'll echo your first sentiment: I think they are meant just for crybabies who can't handle pointers and get confused while tying their shoelaces. :)