The reason I fixed it is indeed exactly as I said: I felt it has to work because of the layout; it does indeed look like what the judges noted - a rat dropping core. Now one can use make alt and use garry.alt for the same results. But why not garry.cpp? Because compilers will think it's C++ and besides that these types of files are meant to be called .alt.c. The formatted version provided by the author is still there of course.
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