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IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress

Posted by timothy on 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.

6 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. International Obfuscated Contest by Thanshin · · Score: 2

    Well, I would have noticed it if they didn't insist on concealing it!

  2. Just write some normal C11 code. by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. Crusti croc by jones_supa · · 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.

  4. Re:WTF is a pre-announcement? by QuasiSteve · · 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

  5. Something not obscure, but interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · 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; }

  6. Re:WTF is a pre-announcement? by freeze128 · · Score: 2

    A pre-announcement was made on twitter. Unfortunately, nobody could understand it.