Cody Boone Ferguson
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Although there were a few lines that I kind of looked over quickly, not evaluating the files in question, those seemed in good state anyway. Often that was binary files. In some cases for example input more information was given but not in all as it was not always clear what it should be and it was not always clear that it was necessary. Some typos were fixed as well. Rebuilt .entry.json and index.html files. A few other files were also modified with some minor fixes like 2006/toledo2/README.md for one example. In that case I believe some binary files were referenced as %%REPO_URL%% but that is incorrect. These files were edited before the index.html files were rebuilt so they should be fine. It should be noted that although I have gone through the entire manifest and it might be that issue #1933 can be closed there is still a chance that when I go through the web pages that I might come across a problem that I will fix at that time. This might or might not be needed but that will be determined later. Now might be a good time to run make www but I will worry about that later (it might or might not even do anything, depending on what was missed).
Fourth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
View the index.html web page for the given winning entry for information on how
compile it and how to run the winning program. Look at the winning source and
try to figure how it does what it does! You may then wish to look at the
Author's remarks for even more details.
The rules for 1997 suggested even more categories than in 1986.
Hints for what to do and not to do were also given in the rules.
For example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless the
abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from nsc to amdahl.
The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for the next year was started
this year.
Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c and comp.unix.wizards with an announcement in news.announce.important. Micro/Systems Journal published the 1987 winning entries. Mary Ann Horton included a version of the 1987 winning entries in an appendix of her C book Portable C Software International Edition (published under the name Mark R Horton). The first announcement of winning entries at the Summer 87 USENIX was helped by a small fly that danced all over the foils.
Final Comments
IMPORTANT NOTE: See contact.html for up to date contact details as well as details on how to provide fixes to any of the entries. See also the IOCCC FAQ for additional information on the IOCCC.