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There are many fixes made but a few questions remain so when I reach
those years I will address those then. Unfortunately, due to
infrastructure work right now, this is all I can say even though there
are a number of things I'd like to say.
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compile the entry and how to run the winning program. Look at the winning
source and try to figure how it does what it does! You may then wish to look at
the Author’s remarks for even more details.</p>
<p>The IOCCC has a website and now has a number of international mirrors.
The primary site can be found at <a href="https://www.ioccc.org">www.ioccc.org</a>.</p>
<p>Use <code>make</code> to compile entries. It is possible that on non-Unix / non-Linux
systems the Makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.</p>
<p>Read over the Makefile for compile/build issues. Your system might require
certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a <code>#define</code> i.e. <code>-D</code>
flag).</p>
<p>Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If
yours is lacking, you may need to compile using gcc instead of your
local compiler.</p>
<p>The IOCCC has a website and now has a number of international mirrors.
The primary website can be found at <a href="https://www.ioccc.org">www.ioccc.org</a>.</p>
<h2 id="remarks-on-some-of-the-entries">Remarks on some of the entries</h2>
<p>We believe you will again be impressed with this year’s winning entries.</p>
<p>This year, 9 won 15 awards. For the first time in the history of the contest,
one person, <a href="../authors.html#Yusuke_Endoh">Yusuke Endoh</a> won
4 times while <a href="../authors.html#Adrian_Cable">Adrian Cable</a>
won 3 times! It is also worth noting that <a href="../authors.html#Christopher_Mills">Chris
Mills</a> last win was in 1993.
Mills</a>’ last win was in
<a href="../years.html#1993">1993</a>.
Welcome back Chris!</p>
<p>We, the judges, were very surprised by this as many of the multiple
authors submitted very different styles of entries.</p>
<p>This year was the first time the IOCCC size tool was used. Entries
<p>This year was the first time the <a href="https://github.com/ioccc-src/temp-test-ioccc/blob/master/2013/iocccsize.c">IOCCC size tool</a> was used. Entries
had to print a value 2053 or less when the <code>-i</code> flag was used.</p>
<p>Several people discovered an undocumented feature in that
certain comments such as:</p>
@@ -421,10 +417,12 @@ certain comments such as:</p>
<pre><code> *\
/</code></pre>
<p>were not correctly parsed by the tool. The guidelines stated:</p>
<pre><code> In cases where the above summary and the algorithm implemented by
the IOCCC size tool source code conflict, the algorithm implemented
by the IOCCC size tool source code is preferred by the judges.</code></pre>
<p>so this abuse was allowed (and encouraged). The judges hope that
<blockquote>
<p>In cases where the above summary and the algorithm implemented by the IOCCC
size tool source code conflict, the algorithm implemented by the IOCCC size tool
source code is preferred by the judges.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>… so this abuse was allowed (and encouraged). The judges hope that
the IOCCC size tool author will patch the tool to block this kind
of size abuse in future contests.</p>
<p>There were some outstanding entries that did not win. Unfortunately