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# Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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View the `index.html` web page for the given winning entry for information on how
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on how to compile it and how to run the winning program.
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Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does!
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You may then wish to look at the Author's remarks for even more details.
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A number of compilers had problems optimizing certain entries.
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Some compilers do optimize, but the resulting program does not work. By default
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we have left off `-O` from compile lines. You might want to add `-O` back, or
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add it back for certain entries where performance is important. (This was
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updated to use `-O3` in 202n though sometimes an entry does not work if the
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compiler optimises the code and in this case it is disabled or explicitly set to
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level 0.)
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This year marked an all time high for number of entries as well as the
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quality of entries. Nearly twice the usual number of entries made it
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to the final judging rounds. Even when we raised the standards for
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winning, we still wound up giving out a few more awards than in previous
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years. The new size rules size probably contributed to the overall
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high quality.
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FYI: By tradition, we do not record the count of the number entries,
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nor do we give our our guess as to the number of entries
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received. For folks who wonder, we can say that **we consumed
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about _2000 pages of output_ (printing between 2 and 4 normal
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pages per side)** during the judging process this year.
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The new instructions for submitting entries worked well - we were
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able to write scripts to unpack them and eliminate duplicates.
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As promised last year, we accepted programs that made use of the X
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libraries for the first time. We now consider ANSI C compilers to be
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the "standard" version that the entries were compiled with.
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Name and address information are separated from the actual program
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prior to judging. This eliminates any chance that we would bias our
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judging for/against any person or group. In the end, we are surprised
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as you are to see who has won. Even so, it is worth noting that
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[Brian Westley](../authors.html#Brian_Westley) has submitted
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a winning entry for the past 6 years!
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## A few notes regarding future contests:
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We did not give awards to some traditional contest categories such as
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"_Best Layout_". We felt that to do so would deny awards to more
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deserving entries. These categories have not been eliminated. We will
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likely be awarding them in future years.
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We received a few entries whose instructions were rot13'd. While
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nothing was said about this in the rules, we found that it made the
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judging process a little harder, so we may request that this not
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be done this in the future.
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Some thought has been given to a separate obfuscated perl contest.
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Watch _comp.lang.perl_ for details!
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Be sure to wait until the [1993 rules](../1993/rules.txt) are posted before
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submitting entries. We may fine tune the rules to reflect some of the ideas
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above.
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Please send us comments and suggestions what we have expressed above.
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Also include anything else that you would like to see in future contests.
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See [How to contact the IOCCC](../contact.html) for how to provide
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us with your comments and suggestions today.
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For those who appreciate a bit of Internet history, this is how
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people used to contact the IOCCC in this given year, via [Unix to Unix CoPy
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(UUCP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing):
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> ...!{sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!judges<br>
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> judges@toad.com
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If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop
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us a line. We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.
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## Final Comments
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: The email addresses found above are for historical
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purposes only, and should not be used today. See
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[contact.html](../contact.html) for up to date contact details
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as well as details on how to provide fixes to any of the entries.
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See also the [IOCCC FAQ](../faq.html) for additional information on the IOCCC.
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## Credits:
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We would like to thank Barbara Frezza for her role as official chef of
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the contest. Landon Noll and Larry Bassel appreciated the opportunity
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to serve as official taste testers. Yummo!
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