Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general Subject: Re: C is not a low level language Followup-To: comp.lang.c Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:11:09 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <0l667epbo7k9do14n1d38gfc5onn0imkgo@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d7a76040ef7e877133de8f8312ada9dc"; logging-data="7056"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/UunREKHv9SqJLADYKm8bL" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bu+mWmowwDfW1rAcn9fJvLO5ylQ= sha1:sscvGbYF4KhmHMcjNZEUXk6wADo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:141269 comp.programming:9677 alt.comp.os.windows-10:86121 pyotr filipivich writes: [...] > There used to be an "Obfuscated Code" competition, where the idea > was to write code so convoluted, that reading it was between really > difficult and "Are you sure we're not going to summon one of the Elder > gods doing this?" There still is. https://ioccc.org/ > I recall one where the code listing looked like the > letter Pi. But it compiled. Output was the value of Pi to some large > number of places. Here's the program, from the 1989 contest: https://ioccc.org/1989/roemer.c That's not quite what it does, but I don't want to spoil it. (It seg faults when I compile it with gcc or clang, but it runs when I compile it with tcc.) [...] (followups to comp.lang.c only.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Will write code for food. void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */