Landon Curt Noll
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While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic TAB indentation within markdown files. After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that might have on the HTML files they produce. Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round** formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by problematic ASCII TAB characters. Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading TAB characters within markdown files. TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
1.5 KiB
To build:
make all
To use:
./smr
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
Nearly every year, one or more people would submit what they claimed was the world's smallest self reproducing program. While the sizes of these submissions varied, a quick glance would reveal that they were too big, until this entry came along.
While strictly speaking, smr.c is not a valid C program, it is not an
invalid C program either! Some C compilers will compile an empty file into a
program that does nothing. But even if your compiler can't, the build
instructions supplied with this entry will produce an executable file. On most
systems, the stdout from the executable will exactly match the original
source.
In the future, the contest rules will specify a minimum size that is one character larger than this entry, forever eliminating this sort of program from the contest. After all, how many variations can one make on this entry? :-)
Author's remarks:
The world's smallest self-replicating program. Guaranteed.
Produces a listing of itself on stdout.