Cody Boone Ferguson
ba0f1ea721
It was agreed to be '## Try:' but there were many files where it was '### Try:'. This has been corrected.
1.6 KiB
To build:
make all
Bugs and (Mis)features:
The current status of this entry is:
STATUS: known bug - please help us fix
For more detailed information see 1989 fubar in bugs.md.
To use:
./fubar <number>
Try:
./try.sh # run on 1 - 7
./fubar.sh 2 # run via script
./fubar 2 # run directly
Judges' remarks:
Run this with a single digit argument (or wait a long time and risk an infinite loop as described in the bugs.md file).
The blank line at the beginning of the source is mandatory. Do you know why?
NOTE: the file ouroboros.c is created by the program itself so this is why it
is not in the repository.
Author's remarks:
In a nutshell, this is probably the slowest and most
obnoxious factorial program ever written. Unfortunately,
the name of the C source must be ouroboros.c; the name is
hard-coded into the program.
The source is a legal shell script and a legal C program. The shell script compiles itself, and then executes the resulting binary, giving the source as input. The program works by successively modifying #define lines each pass through.
Both indent and cb will damage the program, indent
much more so.
Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
This file is Copyright (c) 2023 by Landon Curt Noll. All Rights Reserved. You are free to share and adapt this file under the terms of this license:
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