Landon Curt Noll
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The `make quick_www` and `make www` rules in the top level `Makefile` no longer build compressed tarballs. The tools that form compressed tarballs now add _--no-xattrs --no-selinux_ when building compressed tarballs. Changed `bin/tar-all.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Changed `bin/tar-entry.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Changed `bin/tar-year.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Added `make tar` rule to the top level `Makefile` to create all compressed tarballs. In particular `make tar` calls: * make clobber * make genpath * make genfilelist * make verify_entry_files * make form_entry_tarball * make form_year_tarball * make form_all_tarball Performed `make tar` in an effort to see of tar warnings such as have been fixed: ``` tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.quarantine' ``` **NOTE**: We to **NOT** plan to rebuild compressed tarballs while some of the ((**top priority**)) issues are active. We only rebuilt the compressed tarballs as a test.
Seventh International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Look at the README.md file for the given winning entry for information 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.
Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1990,2023, Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. If you do use this work in some form, the IOCCC judges would appreciate (but does not require) if you were to send us a note about your use.