International Obfuscated C Code Contest - Examples

Examples

Within the code size limit of only a few kilobytes, contestants have managed to do impressively complicated things – a 2004 winner turned out an operating system.

Below is a 1988 entry which calculates pi by looking at its own area:

#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--; int F=00,OO=00;main{F_OO;printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO { _-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_ }

(Note that the entry was written in K&R C; it doesn't work correctly in ANSI C without some change.)

Another good example is the following cleverly written flight simulator, the winner of the IOCCC in 1998 as shown below:

#include #include #include #include double L ,o ,P ,_=dt,T,Z,D=1,d, s,E,h= 8,I, J,K,w,M,m,O ,n,j=33e-3,i= 1E3,r,t, u,v ,W,S= 74.5,l=221,X=7.26, a,B,A=32.2,c, F,H; int N,q, C, y,p,U; Window z; char f ; GC k; main{ Display*e= XOpenDisplay( 0); z=RootWindow(e,0); for (XSetForeground(e,k=XCreateGC (e,z,0,0),BlackPixel(e,0)) ; scanf("%lf%lf%lf",y +n,w+y, y+s)+1; y ++); XSelectInput(e,z= XCreateSimpleWindow(e,z,0,0,400,400, 0,0,WhitePixel(e,0) ),KeyPressMask); for(XMapWindow(e,z); ; T=sin(O)){ struct timeval G={ 0,dt*1e6} ; K= cos(j); N=1e4; M+= H*_; Z=D*K; F+=_*P; r=E*K; W=cos( O); m=K*W; H=K*T; O+=D*_*F/ K+d/K*E*_; B= sin(j); a=B*T*D-E*W; XClearWindow(e,z); t=T*E+ D*B*W; j+=d*_*D-_*F*E; P=W*E*B-T*D; for (o+=(I=D*W+E *T*B,E*d/K *B+v+B/K*F*D)*_; p K)N=1e4; else{ q=W/K *4E2+2e2; C= 2E2+4e2/ K *D; N-1E4&& XDrawLine(e ,z,k,N ,U,q,C); N=q; U=C; } ++p; } L+=_* (X*t +P*M+m*l); T=X*X+ l*l+M *M; XDrawString(e,z,k ,20,380,f,17); D=v/l*15; i+=(B *l-M*r -X*Z)*_; for(XPending(e); u *=CS!=N){ XEvent z; XNextEvent(e ,&z); ++*((N=XLookupKeysym (&z.xkey,0))-IT? N-LT? UP-N?& E:& J:& u: &h); --*( DN -N? N-DT ?N== RT?&u: & W:&h:&J ); } m=15*F/l; c+=(I=M/ l,l*H +I*M+a*X)*_; H =A*r+v*X-F*l+( E=.1+X*4.9/l,t =T*m/32-I*T/24 )/S; K=F*M+( h* 1e4/l-(T+ E*5*T*E)/3e2 )/S-X*d-B*A; a=2.63 /l*d; X+=( d*l-T/S *(.19*E +a *.64+J/1e3 )-M* v +A* Z)*_; l += K *_; W=d; sprintf(f, "%5d %3d" "%7d",p =l /1.7,(C=9E3+ O*57.3)%0550,(int)i); d+=T*(.45-14/l* X-a*130-J* .14)*_/125e2+F*_*v; P=(T*(47 *I-m* 52+E*94 *D-t*.38+u*.21*E) /1e2+W* 179*v)/2312; select(p=0,0,0,0,&G); v-=( W*F-T*(.63*m-I*.086+m*E*19-D*25-.11*u )/107e2)*_; D=cos(o); E=sin(o); } }

This program needs following command line on a Linux system to be compiled:

cc banks.c -o banks -DIT=XK_Page_Up -DDT=XK_Page_Down \ -DUP=XK_Up -DDN=XK_Down -DLT=XK_Left -DRT=XK_Right \ -DCS=XK_Return -Ddt=0.02 -lm -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib

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