Mostly formatting fixes but one spelling fix that I feel almost guilty
about.
Though programme is correct in most cases (except US English but the
author is from Canada) with computers it's actually program. It just
seems better to have this correct if I'm going to go through and look
for typos. Besides this is a programming contest so it makes sense that
it should be correct. Easy mistake to make but should it be fixed?
Maybe, maybe not but I chose to anyway.
There were many many README.md files with the wrong heading level for
different sections. These have been changed.
To help go through the changes it should be noted I used sgit and also
here is what is changed:
The 'Try', 'To build' and 'To run' lines have two '#'s. Some had one and
others had three.
An exception is that in 1984/anonymous/README.md for the alternative
code that had three '#'s. This is not consistent yet and it might be
that only two are desired. But for now that one at least has three.
The dds.c now does return system(q-6); and the dds.alt.c does the return
system("make a");. This way those who have gcc (more people than not
most likely) they can use it like originally designed. Those with clang
can use the alt target in almost the same way only instead of a.out use
just a.
Updated the README>md to explain everything.
Updated the .gitignore with some globs that should have been there all
along ('a' and 'dds.alt' being the ones that are new).
This was a fun one! There were up to three segfaults fixed and with
clang the generated file could not be compiled. The latter part was
fixed with (unfortunately) something of a hack. I explain below and in
the README.md how to change that part to use just cc if you have gcc
(macOS gcc is actually clang).
The first segfault which was always triggered was due to the code
*q>' '&&(*q)--;
This seems odd at first glance but it's pointing to 's' which was
read-only memory as a char *s. It's now a char s[]. The second and
third segfaults were caused if a file was not specified (or it the one
specified did not exist or couldn't be opened for some reason) and if
the output file could not be opened for writing. The allowing the
generated code to compile with clang is something of a hack
unfortunately. The code return system(q-6); ended up doing return
system("cc a.c"); but depending on the compiler this would trigger
errors due to no function prototype specified and also a case where
main() had a return; without any return value. Because the string s
is complicated and because I did not want to inadvertently mess
something up I changed that code to system("make a"); and then added
the right rule to the Makefile. Thus you now need both make and cc.
If you use gcc you may change the system() call to what was given in
this description to get a more authentic feel. If you do this you must
then run ./a.out not ./a!
Simply the Makefile header.
Refer to the //www.ioccc.org/bugs.md URL (that will eventually exist).
Now using CC BY-SA 4.0 License to how you may share and adapt the
Makefile.
The main link was dead but looking at the Internet Wayback Machine I
found that he changed domains and it's still valid. One entry had a
different URL but with a quick check I could not determine that it had
anything to do with him so I changed it to his own domain (which I
verified is his).
The 2001/westley/.gitignore was also updated as it has other source
files that are generated by the commands in the try section.
In the judges' comments add some humour.
Add a try section.
Note that a file is needed for the program to do anything (that is a
file that exists) - not specifying an arg will exit without doing
anything at all.
Explain how to enter form-feed as this is important.
Fix formatting.
These are mostly just formatting fixes but there might be some typos
here and there.
These years have not been checked thoroughly but I made fixes and want
them in for when I do work on them.
As far as the Makefiles go: notes were added that correspond to the
notes in the README.md files which is why I have put them in the same
commit.
In some files changed the formatting was fixed to be a proper markdown
file.
There were some typos including that some README.md files that linked to
/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson actually linked to the non-existent
file /years which obviously would not work.
I also added links to the rest of the places I have fixed entries (but
see below) and I did the same for Yusuke Endoh's fixes.
As well apparently one entry I thought he fixed to compile under modern
systems does not seem to so that entry will have to be revisited another
time. That entry was 1993/jonth.
Those are the main changes here if not all of them.
When changing the macro use to the literal /= I added a space or two. I
did not do this with the other places this macro was used but it feels
like it should be as close to the original formatting as possible.
This was a fun one to fix. There were two invalid operands to binary
expression errors to fix which was resolved with the comma operator.
More fun was dealing with a C pre-processor change. The macro C was used
like e/C to do e/=G but this is no longer allowed. The solution was to
not use the C macro and instead just do the /= etc.
As was discussed with Landon this was a mistake even if it helped with
consistency. There was even a brilliant pun that was destroyed with that
commit which I think is worth pointing out:
cp README.md hill
./ant hill
in 1991/ant ... even if it's technically 'anthill'.
I hope that I got all links fixed in years.html and winners.html. As
well I tried to make sure I got all handles fixed in all/summary.txt.
Nevertheless these should be checked. For some handles they were never
updated (at least in the html files - though maybe summary.txt too, not
sure) in the first place so there was nothing to do.
Typo fixes like references to *.hint when it should be README.md. There
probably are others that need to be fixed but haven't been located yet.
Mostly formatting fixes but some typos were fixed as well. This commit
is being made now so I can roll back
ad04d21fda as it seems to have been a
mistake to do. Another way to more easily identify same authors will
have to be figured out, perhaps in future files that are yet to be
generated. This upcoming commit will hopefully not cause any problems
but if there are any they will be worked out.
Landon and I both came to the same conclusion that although the renaming
directories seemed to have been warranted in theory they shouldn't have
been renamed after all. This was briefly discussed in issue #3. Anyway
this is why different years are in this commit: to get them out of the
way and since they're only README.md files this seems okay to do.
Don't assume '.' is in the path.
I note that at least under macOS this game does not work. I'll be
looking at the entries of this year at another time. I just need this
commit in to make some other changes unrelated.
The README.md was also updated - formatting fixes to turn it into a
markdown file proper.
There were many files renamed in this commit and I hope I got all the
references to the old names changed to the new names. To explain this
commit there were some older entries that had the wrong directory name:
not the surname but something else.
Very possibly there are other directories that need to be renamed and I
am actually aware of one right now but since it's in 2005 (which is
close to being worked on) I am not changing that now but just noting it:
2005/anon should be changed to 2005/anonymous (unless there's a very
good reason I am unaware of). But like I said since 2005 will be worked
on soon I have not touched it.
The Makefiles, .gitignore, the all/summary.txt, years.html and
winners.html files as well as the directories and the files under the
renamed directories have all been updated.
This is a rather big update and it might be that there are conflicts. If
so I will fix them. I will have to update 2005/anon later on to try and
prevent this from happening but very possibly there will be conflicts
here. It's also possible I missed some changes in years.html and/or
winners.html and/or summary/all.txt but I think I got them all. These
should be verified later on.
Move copyright notice to the end.
Add a standard comment about the newly added `README.md` files.
Clean up trailing whitespace.
Fixed a few minor typos.
Cody Boone Ferguson