Best Obfuscator of Programs

Paul Heckbert
Pixar

To build:

    make all

NOTE: The original entry may be built with “make alt”.

Judges’ comments:

Try:

ph 40 < ph.c > foo.c; cc foo.c -o ph
ph 20 < a_C_prog.c > bar.c; cc bar.c

The judges used this program to fold up very long lines which the BSD fold(1) was unable to process. This program has been added to the contest tool chest.

On System V systems, compile with: -Dindex=strchr To compile on a 16 bit machine, change 300000’s to 30000.

NOTE: This entry requires a non-standard K&R C compiler to compile.

Copyright (c) 1987, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.