Cody Boone Ferguson
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Having to click on the links in each README.md file will have to be done
to verify the links work but it appears to be in the form of:
/bugs.md#YYYYauthor-readmemd
1.5 KiB
Best self-modifying program
Jay Vosburgh
US
To build:
make all
Bugs and (Mis)features
This entry a listed in bugs.md as:
STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
For more detailed information see bugs.md.
To run:
./fubar <number>
Try:
./fubar 2
Judges' remarks:
Run this with a single digit argument (or wait a long time and risk an infinite loop as described above).
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:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
For more information, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/