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# Guidelines for [Rule 9 - No interactive compiling allowed](rules.html#rule-9---no-interactive-compiling-allowed)
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Don't forget that the building of your program should be done
**WITHOUT human intervention**. So don't do things such as:
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and then include special notes in your `remarks.md` file for
alternate / human intervention based building.
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# Guidelines for [Rule 11 - Legal rule abuse](rules.html#rule11-legal-rule-abuse)
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# Guidelines for [Rule 12 - UTF-8](rules.html#rule-12---utf-8)
[Rule 12 - UTF-8](rules.html#rule12-utf8)
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no longer discourages the use of multibyte UTF-8 characters in `C` code.
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prevent such trailing control-M's being added.
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We **STRONGLY** recommend you **do** install the most recent release of
[mkiocccentry toolkit](https://github.com/ioccc-src/mkiocccentry)
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# General Guidelines
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## Overall Guidelines
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These [Guidelines](guidelines.html) are **hints** and **suggestions**, **NOT** [Rules](rules.html).
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## Our Likes and Dislikes:
## Our Likes and Dislikes
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If you don't have a prog.alt.c, then **PLEASE** remove the `try.alt` rule as well.
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### About C preprocessor
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Doing masses of `#define`s to obscure the source has become 'old'. We
tend to 'see thru' masses of `#define`s due to our pre-processor tests
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`#` in a C preprocessor directive must be the 1st non-whitespace byte.
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### About compilers
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We tend to **like _less_** a submission that requires either
`gcc` **OR** `clang`. **We _prefer_ submissions** that can compile
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that you not use any really obscure compiler flags if you can help it.
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### About nested functions
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One side effect of the above is that you cannot assume the use
of nested functions such as:
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We **DISLIKE** submissions that require the use of `-fnested-functions`.
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### About variadic functions
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If your submission uses functions that have a variable number of
arguments, **be careful**. Systems implement `va_list` in a wide variety
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We **DISLIKE** the use of `varargs.h`. Use `stdarg.h` instead.
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### About I/O
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We **DISLIKE** the use of `gets(3)`. Use `fgets(3)` instead.
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### About tarballs
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We tend to **DISLIKE** the blatant use of tarballs in an attempt to simply get
around the extra file number limit. We realize there may be cases where a
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to make it through the final rounds, if it even gets that far.
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### About stdlib
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The `exit(3)` function returns `void`. Some broken systems have `exit(3)`
return `int`; your submission should assume that `exit(3)` returns a `void`.
### What it means to be small.
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### What it means to be small
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Small programs are best when they are short, obscure and concise.
While such programs are not as complex as other winners, they do
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[Microsoft Windows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows). :-)
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### About environment
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We tend to **DISLIKE** programs that:
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### About X
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X client submissions should be as portable as possible. Submissions that
adapt to a wide collection of environments will be favored. For
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particular window manager.
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### About Curses
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One should restrict libcurses to portable features found on both BSD
and Linux curses.
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### Miscellaneous
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While we recognize that UNIX is not a universal operating system, the contest
does have a bias towards such systems. In an effort to expand the scope of the
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## Fun😄damental Guidelines
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