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.
Seventh 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.
This year, the Grand Prize won a standing ovation at USENIX.
The "Strangest abuse of the rules" award was given this year to stress the fact that starting in 1991, entries should be shell-specific.
This year was the first year that we accepted ANSI C entries. It was interesting to note that the ANSI C entries were as a whole less portable than the K&R C entries. We hope that in future contests people will enter more obfuscated and challenging ANSI C programs.
We would like to thank Barbara Frezza (loving wife of Larry Bassel) for her role as official chef of the contest. Her opinions regarding some of the contest entries were appreciated.
Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix, and alt.sources. They have been made available on a wide number of USENET archive sites such as uunet.
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.