Landon Curt Noll
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The `make quick_www` and `make www` rules in the top level `Makefile` no longer build compressed tarballs. The tools that form compressed tarballs now add _--no-xattrs --no-selinux_ when building compressed tarballs. Changed `bin/tar-all.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Changed `bin/tar-entry.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Changed `bin/tar-year.sh` VERSION from "1.0.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1 2024-02-27". Added `make tar` rule to the top level `Makefile` to create all compressed tarballs. In particular `make tar` calls: * make clobber * make genpath * make genfilelist * make verify_entry_files * make form_entry_tarball * make form_year_tarball * make form_all_tarball Performed `make tar` in an effort to see of tar warnings such as have been fixed: ``` tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.quarantine' ``` **NOTE**: We to **NOT** plan to rebuild compressed tarballs while some of the ((**top priority**)) issues are active. We only rebuilt the compressed tarballs as a test.
Fourth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Look at the README.md file for the given winning entry for information on how to compile it and how to run the winning program. Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does! You may then wish to look at the Author's remarks for even more details.
The rules for 1997 suggested even more categories than in 1986.
Hints for what to do and not to do were also given in the rules.
For example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless the
abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from nsc to amdahl.
The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for the next year was started
this year.
Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c and comp.unix.wizards with an announcement in news.announce.important. Micro/Systems Journal published the 1987 winners. Mark R. Horton included a version of the 1987 winners in an appendix of his C book Portable C Software International Edition. The first announcement of winners at the Summer 87 USENIX was helped by a small fly that danced all over the foils.
Final Comments
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Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1987,2023, Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. If you do use this work in some form, the IOCCC judges would appreciate (but does not require) if you were to send us a note about your use.