Landon Curt Noll
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Probably one of the most requested mods was to merge years-spoiler.html with years.html as how an entry does what it does, not what it does at a high level is what is important. This mod also allows us to maintain only one file for entry info.
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content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet"
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<title>README</title>
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<h1>2016 marked the “The Twenty Sixth International Obfuscated C Code Contest”</h1>
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<p>Copyright © 2019, Landon Curt Noll, Simon Cooper, and Leonid A.
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Broukhis. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational
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or non-profit use is granted provided this copyright and notice are
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included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses
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must receive prior permission from the contest judges.</p>
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<h2>Standard IOCCC stuff</h2>
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The primary site can be found at <b>www.ioccc.org</b>.
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<p>Use make to compile entries. It is possible that on non-Un*x / non-Linux
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systems the makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.</p>
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<p>Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
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them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the hints files for
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spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
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by the submitter.</p>
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<p>Read over the makefile for compile/build issues. Your system may require
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certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a #define).</p>
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<p>Some C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If yours is
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lacking, you may need to compile using clang or gcc instead of your local
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compiler.</p>
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<h2>Remarks on some of the winners</h2>
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<p>This year’s winners are impressive!</p>
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<p>The “Most in need of debugging” (endoh) is very inventive in a way it produces its own text!</p>
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<p>The “Most likely to be awarded” (ciura) has an amazing vocabulary!</p>
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<p>There are again nods to winners of the years:</p>
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<pre><code>[1991/davidguy](http://ioccc.org/years.html#1991_davidguy)
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[2011/blakely](http://ioccc.org/years.html#2011_blakely)
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</code></pre>
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<p>These nods to not run afoul of the guideline:</p>
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<pre><code>We tend to dislike programs that:
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...
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are rather similar to previous winners
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</code></pre>
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<p>because the entry (dogon) appropriately pays homage to past winners
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without blatantly reusing their code.</p>
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<p>…We’ll stop spouting spoilers now. Have fun exploring all the entries!</p>
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<h2>Remarks on some of submissions that did not win</h2>
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<p>Some entries tried to get around the size limit by submitting a data
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file that was really C code and then blindly including code in prog.c.</p>
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<p>Quite a few entries suffered from undefined behavior like accessing
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uninitialized locals and/or reading-writing below the stack.
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We advise running your entry through valgrind to make sure those mistakes
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are avoided.</p>
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<p>Using extra arguments to main, or arguments of wrong types as a quick and dirty
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way of declaring variables is now passé. Clang, for example, rejects them outright.</p>
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<p>We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit
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them for the next IOCCC.</p>
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<p>Some entries seemed to have a good idea, but the implementation of
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the idea was limited in scope.</p>
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<h2>Final Comments</h2>
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<p>Please feel free to send us comments and suggestions about the
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competition, this README or anything else that you would like to see in
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future contests.</p>
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<p>If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop
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us a line. We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.</p>
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<p>If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, please
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send us the fix (patch file or the entire changed file).</p>
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<TABLE><TR>
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<TD><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="/png/by-sa-3.0-88x31.png" /></a></TD>
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<TD><P>© Copyright 1984-2019,
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<A HREF="/judges.html">Leo Broukhis, Simon Cooper, Landon Curt Noll</A>
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- All rights reserved<BR>
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This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</P></TD>
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