C

  • 6th September 2021

Let the music play

char a;float b,c;main(d){for(;d>2e3*c?c=1,scanf(" %c%f",&a,&c),d=55-a%32*9/5,
b=d>9,d=d%13-a/32*12:1;a=2)++d<24?b*=89/84.:putchar(a=b*d);}

Good news for all International Obfuscated C Code Contest fans -- here's another winning piece from 2013 written by Yusuke Endoh, who is no stranger to the Contest. It is dubbed the Most Tweetable 1-Liner, because is small enough to fit in a tweet (137 characters only), yet can "tweet out a tune", that is, will play some music for your entertainment…

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  • 1st March 2018

Have fun with Unix

main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}

Just one line of code, but lots of confusion.  What does this program do?…

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  • 20th January 2018

How to dismantle a compiler bomb

main[-1u]={1};

You have heard of "zip bombs" (a tiny ZIP file that decompresses to multiple gigabytes) and "XML bombs" (small XML file abusing the entities to consume lots of memory), and now there is a "compiler bomb" to follow suit.  The idea is quite similar -- the source code is only 14 bytes, but the generated executable will be over 16 GB in size…

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  • 25th October 2017

Namaste India

This obfuscated piece of C code prints the map of India to the standard output.

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
    int a,b,c;
    int count = 1;
    for (b=c=10;a="- FIGURE?, UMKC,XYZHello Folks,\
    TFy!QJu ROo TNn(ROo)SLq SLq ULo+\
    UHs UJq TNn*RPn/QPbEWS_JSWQAIJO^\
    NBELPeHBFHT}TnALVlBLOFAkHFOuFETp\
    HCStHAUFAgcEAelclcn^r^r\\tZvYxXy\
    T|S~Pn SPm SOn TNn ULo0ULo#ULo-W\
    Hq!WFs XDt!" [b+++21]; )
    for(; a-- > 64 ; )
    putchar ( ++c=='Z' ? c = c/ 9:33^b&1);
    return 0;
}
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  • 11th September 2017

Quine - a self-replicating program

Quines are computer programs that accept no input and write its own source code on the standard output.  This entry was taken from the Jargon File, the author is unknown.

char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main()
{printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c";
main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}
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  • 27th August 2017

Underscore Pi

This clever program written by Brian Westley calculates π by looking at its own area.  It is one of the winning entries of IOCCC in 1988.

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int F=00,OO=00;main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
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  • 24th August 2017

Duff's device

"This code forms some sort of argument (...), but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."

send(to, from, count)
register short *to, *from;
register count;
{
	register n = (count + 7) / 8;
	switch (count % 8) {
	case 0: do { *to = *from++;
	case 7:      *to = *from++;
	case 6:      *to = *from++;
	case 5:      *to = *from++;
	case 4:      *to = *from++;
	case 3:      *to = *from++;
	case 2:      *to = *from++;
	case 1:      *to = *from++;
			} while (--n > 0);
	}
}
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