Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
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# Sixteenth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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## Standard IOCCC stuff
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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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Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If
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yours is lacking, you may need to compile using gcc instead of your
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local compiler.
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### Historical note:
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The IOCCC has a website and now has a number of international mirrors.
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The primary website can be found at [www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org).
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### Historical update:
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The IOCCC website once had a number of
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[international mirrors](https://web.archive.org/web/20201030210517/https://www.ioccc.org/mirror.html).
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As of 2020 Dec 29, [GitHub](https://www.github.com) serves as the distributed server farm for the
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[IOCCC winner repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner) that GitHub renders as
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[Official IOCCC website - www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org).
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## Remarks on some of the entries
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There were some outstanding entries that did not win. Unfortunately
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some very good entries lost because they:
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- depended too much on non-portable side effects in expressions;
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- depended too much on a particular byte order;
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- required the use of a special script, data file or pseudo-machine
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language that was not supplied with the entry.
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We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit
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them for the next IOCCC.
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We believe you will be impressed with this year's winning entries The [Best of
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Show](ollinger/index.html) is a fine example of obfuscation. But don't ignore
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the other entries! There are games, programs that speak, ones that compile code
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and [one that _might_ run binaries you already have](anonymous/index.html).
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The [Best abuse of the rules](bellard/index.html) is technically allowed by the
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[rules](rules.txt). This year we awarded it again, but don't assume you can get
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away with using the same technique next time ... :-)
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This year there were several repeat authors. This is understating the
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achievement a little - [one
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person](../authors.html#Brian_Westley) has won 8 times
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before! (Please note that judging is done completely anonymously.)
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## Why has it taken so long to post the winning source?
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This is somewhat my (Simon Cooper's) fault. I do apologize to the IOCCC
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community for this! Judging does take quite a lot of time, and I
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over-committed myself several times this year. Without divulging too much,
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we do look at and work out what every entry does.
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## Final Comments
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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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Send such email to:
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questions@ioccc.org
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```
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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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