Landon Curt Noll
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We sort with lines starting with # first. We sort with lines starting with * second. We sort with lines that do not start with [#!*] third. We sort with lines starting with ! fourth. Example usage in vim with a keyboard macro <escape>f: ```vim :map ^[f 1G!G../../bin/sgi^M ``` or via .vimrc: ```vimrc " sort the entire .gitignore file using ../../bin/sgi :map ^[f 1G!G../../bin/sgi^M ``` NOTE: The ^[ above is ((Escape)) and ^M is ((Control-M)). Example usage in shell: ```sh rm -f t && ../../bin/sgi < .gitignore > t && mv -f t .gitignore ``` Suggested usage: ```sh bin/all-run.sh bin/sort.gitignore -v 1 ``` Sorted all winner .gitignore according to this method. Sorted all year level .gitignore according to this method. Sorted top level .gitignore according to this method.
To build:
make
Bugs and (Mis)features:
The current status of this entry is:
STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
STATUS: doesn't work with some platforms - please help us fix
For more detailed information see 2001 bellard in bugs.md.
To use:
./bellard file
Try:
./bellard bellard.otccex.c
Judges' remarks:
<JUDGES_COMMENTS> :-)
Author's remarks:
OTCC is an Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler for i386-linux. It generates
FAST! i386 32 bit code (no bytecode) and it is powerful enough to
compile itself. OTCC supports a strict subset of C. This subset is
compilable by a standard ANSI C compiler. OTCC compiles,
assembles, links and runs C code without the need of any other
program.
You can use it by typing:
./bellard bellard.c [args]...
or by giving the C source to its standard input.
args are given to the main() function of bellard.c (argv[0] is
bellard.c).
Examples:
- Sample compilation and execution:
./bellard bellard.otccex.c 10
- Self compilation:
./bellard bellard.c bellard.otccex.c 10
- Self compilation iterated...
./bellard bellard.c bellard.c bellard.otccex.c 10
An alternate syntax is to use it as a script interpreter: you can
put #!/usr/local/bin/otcc at the beginning of your C source if
you installed otcc at this place.
Supported C language subset (read joint example bellard.otccex.c to have an introduction to OTCC dialect)
Expressions:
-
binary operators, in decreasing precedence order:
*/%,+-,>><<,<<=>>=,==!=,&,^,|,=,&&,||. -
&&and||have the same semantics as in C: left to right evaluation and early exit (short-circuited). -
Parenthesis are supported.
-
Unary operators:
&,*(pointer indirection),-(negation),+,!,~, postfix++and--. -
Pointer indirection (
*) only works with explicit cast tochar *,int *orint (*)()(function pointer). -
++,--, and unary&can only be used with variable lvalue (left value). -
=can only be used with variable or*(pointer indirection) lvalue. -
Function calls are supported with standard i386 calling convention. Function pointers are supported with explicit cast. Functions can be used before being declared.
-
Types: only signed integer (
int) variables and functions can be declared. Variables cannot be initialized in declarations. Only old K&R function declarations are parsed (implicit integer return value and no types on arguments). -
Any function or variable from the libc can be used because
OTCCuses the libc dynamic linker to resolve undefined symbols. -
Instructions: blocks (
{}) are supported as in C.ifandelsecan be used for tests. ThewhileandforC loops are supported.breakcan be used to exit loops.returnis used for the return value of a function. -
Identifiers are parsed the same way as C. Local variables are handled, but there is no local name space (not a problem if different names are used for local and global variables).
-
Numbers can be entered in decimal, hexadecimal (
0xor0Xprefix), or octal (0prefix). -
#defineis supported without function like arguments. No macro recursion is tolerated; other preprocessor directives are ignored. -
C Strings and C character constants are supported. Only
\n,\",\'and\\escapes are recognized. -
C Comments can be used (but no C++ comments).
-
No error is displayed if an incorrect program is given.
-
Memory: the code, data, and symbol sizes are limited to 100KB (it can be changed in the source code).
Obfuscation:
No special effort was needed because obfuscation is almost
unavoidable for such a program :-) #defines must be used to
compress the code, and integrated i386 code generator leads to non
obvious code.
Portability:
OTCC only works on i386 linux because it generates i386 code. OTCC
also relies on little endianness, unaligned memory accesses and
ASCII representation of characters. It also supposes that no valid
pointers are less than 512. If all those constraints are met, then
OTCC could be theoretically used to "cross compile", although no
such support is currently integrated.
It was successfully compiled with gcc version 2.95.2. You get some
warnings because old K&R prototypes are used, some casts are implicit
and some functions are used before being defined. OTCC uses the
dynamic linker to resolve symbols with dlsym(3), so -ldl must
be used when you compile and link it.
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:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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