IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress

leob (154345) writes In case you haven't noticed yet, the 23rd International Obfuscated C Code Contest is now in progress. A pre-announcement was made on Twitter in the end of August; the online submission tool is now available until 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC.

International Obfuscated Contest

[Thanshin]

Well, I would have noticed it if they didn't insist on concealing it!

Just write some normal C11 code.

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody should submit an entry using just normal C11 code. It's ugly and inconsistent by design with its awful _Noreturn, _Alignas, _Threat_local and gets_s() naming.

Crusti croc

[jones_supa]

A particular sin() implementation [sourceware.org] by IBM has always looked scary to me. I found it via an interesting Stack Overflow thread [stackoverflow.com] which talks about trigonometric functions.

WTF is a pre-announcement?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Given that an "announcement" is often used to tell people about something that's coming up soon, WTF is a "pre-announcement"?

Re:WTF is a pre-announcement?

[QuasiSteve]

An announcement that they're planning on making an announcement, with the former alluding to the same material as the latter.

Pre-announcement:

The @IOCCC judges are looking at their schedules to see when we might hold a new #IOCCC. Stay tuned!

Announcement:

The 23rd @IOCCC will be open from 2014-Sep-01 02:03:04 UTC to 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC. #ioccc #IOCCC23

Re:

[freeze128]

A pre-announcement was made on twitter. Unfortunately, nobody could understand it.

Something not obscure, but interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

int printf(char*,...);char q='"',n='\n',b='\\',*s="int printf(char*,...);char q='%c',n='%c%c',b='%c%c',*s=%c%s%c;int main() { printf(s,q,b,'n',b,b,q,s,q,n); return 0; }%c";int main() { printf(s,q,b,'n',b,b,q,s,q,n); return 0; }

IOCCC again?

[sideslash]

These IOCCC conferences always come up with more and more global warming alarmism, hurricane warnings, hockey sticks, polar bear extinctions, and the list goes on. Can't they give it a rest? And what about this pause, why don't they talk about that?

Huh? What? Oh. Sorry, carry on.

Re:

[ConceptJunkie]

You do realize the code that generated the "hockey stick" graph won the the IOCCC back in 1999.