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The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced

Posted by timothy on from the in-a-roundabout-way-naturally dept.

leob writes "As promised at the end of the 20th IOCCC earlier this year, the 21st International Obfuscated C Code Contest will accept entries from 2012-Aug-15 03:14:15 UTC to 2012-Sep-14 09:26:53 UTC. The earliest announcement about the next contest was on Twitter on July 13, giving the interested parties more than 2 months to polish their entries."

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  1. Yeah, but when is the Underhanded C Contest by Rei · · Score: 2

    ...coming back? Just my luck that the first year I entered it, it died... :P

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    1. Re:Yeah, but when is the Underhanded C Contest by Rei · · Score: 2

      Hehehe, you got me ;)

      It's actually a really fun contest to take part in, first selecting what bug or group of bugs you want to exploit, and then how you want to hide them. the contest last year was to make it so that if a baggage handler typed a special but inconspicuous comment on the bag, it'd reroute the bag to some mean location. My "bug" was that the user's comment was stored in a struct in a string of a specific length but there was no bounds checking, so their comment string could overwrite the destination (I made it look like there was bounds checking, but the code was broken). The destination was right after the comment string, so whatever three characters in the comment were immediately after the comment limit (which could just be in the middle of a word in an innocent-looking comment) became the destination airport code.

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      "99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
  2. Could extend this to natural languages. by Rei · · Score: 3, Funny

    Along the lines of the grammatically-correct sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".

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    "99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
    1. Re:Could extend this to natural languages. by hvm2hvm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not a good idea, a contest like that would only make language arts students think their college degree will be useful for something...

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  3. Re:IOC++CC and IOPERLCC etc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in: International Legible Perl Contest Announced!

    Extra points for using all of perl's obscure features and alternate syntaxes while still keeping things readable and even beautiful!

  4. Re:GREAT NEWS !! I MISSED THE 20TH !! by azalin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are few things that are more NERD than entering (or actually winning) a contest like this. It requires creativity, programming skills, is hard to do, of very limited actual use and only a handful people will appreciate it. Have fun!

  5. Significance of the times by alhirzel · · Score: 2

    What is the significance of the end time of the competition? With the first being pi it would surprise me if the end time were random...