Cody Boone Ferguson
4bf3f302cb
As in
sgit -e 's/\([Aa]uthor.*\)comments/\1remarks/g' -e 's/\([Jj]udge.*\)comments/\1remarks/g' '*README.md'
Best One-liner:
Laurion Burchall Brown University Unit 4641 Providence RI 02912-4641 USA
To build:
make all
Cody Boone Ferguson fixed this so it would
compile and work with modern compilers. The problem was that srand() returns
void but it was used in a || expression. Thus the comma operator was needed.
Cody also changed the entry to use fgets() instead of gets() to make it
safe for lines greater than 231 in length and to prevent a warning at linking or
at runtime. Note that this now prints a newline after the output but this seems
like a worthy compromise for making it safer (fixing it is more problematic than
it is worth). In macOS another line of output would be shown anyway namely the
warning that it uses gets(). A subtlety about this fix: if a line is greater
than 231 in length if the program chooses that line it might print the first 231
characters or it might print (up to) the next 231 characters and so on. Thank
you Cody for your assistance!
For the original fixed version ldb.alt.c see below.
To run:
./ldb < file
some_command | ./ldb
Try:
./ldb < /etc/passwd
printf "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest\n
Best One-liner\n
by Laurion Burchall" | ./ldb
Alternate code:
For the original version fixed so that it will compile with modern compiles, try:
make alt
Use ldb.alt as you would ldb.
Judges' remarks:
Trigraphs are natural obfuscators. Most C-beautifiers become C-uglifiers because they don't handle them correctly.
Can you figure out how it prints a given random line (or if the line is longer than 231 characters, part of that line) from stdin?
Author's remarks:
All input lines must be under 232 characters long. The compiling platform should be ASCII based.
Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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