Cody Boone Ferguson
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The location of the link is in the About menu under the 'Contacting the IOCCC' and above 'Thanks for the help'. At first I had it at the very bottom, under 'IOCCC markdown guidelines', but it seemed better to have it closer to contacting the IOCCC. This is the same location in the no JavaScript menu (which, for those who do not know or forget, is not a requirement except for some screen sizes). The top level Makefile has a new 'security' rule. Updated make help. Typo fixes in make help. SECURITY.html has had a few updates as well: change the wording of entry code is unsupported (it now says 'ALL CODE IN ALL IOCCC ENTRIES IS UNSUPPORTED!!') and it now links to the mkiocccentry repo and how to report a possible security vulnerability in that repo; as that IS supported - and since there was reference to discussing security concerns is in SECURITY.html - even though the entries will not receive security updates - it seemed a good idea to have a link to report such security issues in the mkiocccentry repo. Perhaps the FAQ needs to be updated for this too.
To build:
make all
To use:
./bas2 < file
echo text | ./bas2
Try:
./try.sh
./try.sh "foo bar" "baz" "IOCCC 1998/bas2" README.md
./try.sh try.sh "bas2.c" bas2.orig.c
Judges' remarks:
Questions to ponder:
Can you determine the relationship between the input and the resulting numeric output?
The program was not designed to process files with a certain octet value, what value is that?
Hint and Extra Credit:
This entry points out a minor flaw in the IOCCC rules that has been around since 1992. It processes a certain octet value in a way that differs from a strict reading of one of the official IOCCC rules. What is the rule and what is the octet value?
Author's remarks:
The main obfuscation is the way characters are recognized, which is done by matching the bit patterns. Minor obfuscations are:
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Useless layout.
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Useless variable names.
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Recursive
main()instead of 2 loops (over input characters and over bits in the character). -
?:and||instead of if statements.