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Best of show - abuse of libc

This program consists of a single print statement wrapped in a while loop. You would not think that this would amount to much, but you would be very, very wrong. A clue to what is happening and how this works is encoded in the ASCII art of the program source.

Click to view the original at ioccc.org

Hasnain says:

The international obfuscated C competition entries are always crazy but this year’s winner has to take the cake. Tic tac toe implemented in one call to printf - because of course printf is turing complete.

“This program consists of a single print statement wrapped in a while loop. You would not think that this would amount to much, but you would be very, very wrong. A clue to what is happening and how this works is encoded in the ASCII art of the program source.”

Posted on 2021-01-09T04:37:55+0000