Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make all
To use:
./smr
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
Nearly every year, one or more people would submit what they claimed was the world's smallest self reproducing program. While the sizes of these submissions varied, a quick glance would reveal that they were too big, until this entry came along.
While strictly speaking, smr.c is not a valid C program, it is not an
invalid C program either! Some C compilers will compile an empty file into a
program that does nothing. But even if your compiler can't, the build
instructions supplied with this entry will produce an executable file. On most
systems, the stdout from the executable will exactly match the original
source.
In the future, the contest rules will specify a minimum size that is one character larger than this entry, forever eliminating this sort of program from the contest. After all, how many variations can one make on this entry? :-)
Author's remarks:
The world's smallest self-replicating program. Guaranteed.
Produces a listing of itself on stdout.