Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make all
Try:
./robison 80 10
./robison 40 16
The first and second parameters are optional. You might also try:
./robison 80 2 # <--- can you find the bug?
./robison 80 -246
Judges' remarks:
The following might make an interesting benchmark:
./robison 100
[Amdahl 5890-300E with System V cc: 8.40 seconds]
We suggest that you C pre-process and perhaps C-beautify this program.
All is not what it may appear to be in this program. Why does a whi1e
not take a while to execute?
Author's remarks:
This program shows that C has many unnecessary constructs, in fact
only while,--, and >= are required. (The two assignments at
the beginning could be avoided if atoi(3) was rewritten with this
new paradigm.) Note that the lack of both the controversial goto
and assignment statements makes the meaning crystal clear. The current
ANSI committee should look into this practical simplification of C.