IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress

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Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2014 @12:26AM from the lowering-the-bar dept.

leob (154345) writes In case you haven't noticed yet, the 23rd International Obfuscated C Code Contest is now in progress. A pre-announcement was made on Twitter in the end of August; the online submission tool is now available until 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC.

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International obfuscated Slashtdot comments contes by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 00:32 · Score: 0

I think that goatse guy will win
International Obfuscated Contest by Thanshin · 2014-09-18 00:33 · Score: 2

Well, I would have noticed it if they didn't insist on concealing it!
Just write some normal C11 code. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 00:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Somebody should submit an entry using just normal C11 code. It's ugly and inconsistent by design with its awful _Noreturn, _Alignas, _Threat_local and gets_s() naming.
Re:International obfuscated Slashtdot comments con by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 00:53 · Score: 0

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Re:International obfuscated Slashtdot comments con by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 01:11 · Score: 0

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Crusti croc by jones_supa · 2014-09-18 01:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

A particular sin() implementation by IBM has always looked scary to me. I found it via an interesting Stack Overflow thread which talks about trigonometric functions.
WTF is a pre-announcement? by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2014-09-18 01:25 · Score: 1

Given that an "announcement" is often used to tell people about something that's coming up soon, WTF is a "pre-announcement"?
1. Re:WTF is a pre-announcement? by QuasiSteve · 2014-09-18 02:31 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  An announcement that they're planning on making an announcement, with the former alluding to the same material as the latter.
  Pre-announcement:
  
  The @IOCCC judges are looking at their schedules to see when we might hold a new #IOCCC. Stay tuned!
  Announcement:
  
  The 23rd @IOCCC will be open from 2014-Sep-01 02:03:04 UTC to 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC. #ioccc #IOCCC23
2. Re:WTF is a pre-announcement? by freeze128 · 2014-09-18 02:57 · Score: 2
  
  A pre-announcement was made on twitter. Unfortunately, nobody could understand it.
Something not obscure, but interesting... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 02:47 · Score: 2, Interesting

int printf(char*,...);char q='"',n='\n',b='\\',*s="int printf(char*,...);char q='%c',n='%c%c',b='%c%c',*s=%c%s%c;int main() { printf(s,q,b,'n',b,b,q,s,q,n); return 0; }%c";int main() { printf(s,q,b,'n',b,b,q,s,q,n); return 0; }
1. Re:Something not obscure, but interesting... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-19 18:55 · Score: 0
  
  This is called a quine - a self-replicating program.
IOCCC again? by sideslash · 2014-09-18 04:28 · Score: 1

These IOCCC conferences always come up with more and more global warming alarmism, hurricane warnings, hockey sticks, polar bear extinctions, and the list goes on. Can't they give it a rest? And what about this pause, why don't they talk about that?

Huh? What? Oh. Sorry, carry on.
1. Re:IOCCC again? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-18 05:40 · Score: 0
  
  You're thinking of the wrong organization. These guys decide where the next Olympics is going to be.
2. Re:IOCCC again? by ConceptJunkie · 2014-09-18 07:59 · Score: 1
  
  You do realize the code that generated the "hockey stick" graph won the the IOCCC back in 1999.
  
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