Landon Curt Noll
1979ea0280
Fixed links to year level compressed tarballs. Added an "Inventory" of year-level compressed tarballs to the generated `years.html` web page. In `bin/gen-years.sh` changed VERSION from "1.0.3 2024-03-26" to "1.1 2024-03-30". In `bin/output-year-index.sh` changed VERSION from "1.1.2 2024-03-26" to "1.2 2024-03-30". Added `inc/topnav.empty.html` for an empty narrow topnav bar. Changed references from "topnav=." to "topnav=empty" in `inc/md2html.cfg`. Removed top level `ioccc.tar.bz2` compressed tarball. NOTE: Sorry (tm Canada 🇨🇦) to remove the top level `ioccc.tar.bz2` file. We will look into [Git Large File Storage [Git-LFS](https://git-lfs.com/). If Git-LFS works well and does not have undesirable side effects, we will consider restoring `ioccc.tar.bz2`. Removed top level Makefile rules for "untar_all_tarball" and "form_all_tarball". Removed `bin/tar-all.sh`. Added `make gen_status` to `make quick_www` and `make www` in the top level `Makefile`. Ran `make www` to perform the above and test under macOS.
Fifth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
View the index.html web page for the given winning entry for information on how
on how to 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 maximum size of entries was raised from 1024 to 1536 bytes, however smaller entries were encouraged. Due to the "Best Abuse of the Rules" entry of 1987, a limit of 160 chars in the compile line was introduced.
This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most unusual entry and best abuse of the C Preprocessor rather than the most well rounded entry.
Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix and alt.sources. The 1988 winning entries will be published in the Micro/Systems Journal.
Winning entries for previous years were repackaged with each year being in its own directory. Makefiles and hints were also provided. The package was posted to the comp.sources.unix newsgroup. They are also available on a wide number of USENET archive sites.
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 addition information on the IOCCC.