[COFF] Re: C compiler in 512 bytes

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 06:14:42PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: Thanks! I always also loved the obfuscated C contest as you could pick up so much neat stuff and low-down info from that. Also showed you a lot of the underlying behaviour in the C language and how compilers would 'fill in the blanks' in several cases. As students during my college time we regularly got into friendly competitions to do the 'shoterst source xyz' or 'fastest' or even some obscure 'smallest resulting ASM from the compiler'. Fun times.. Longest running one I remember was cramming a fully compiling and running Conway's 'life' into as little C-source bytes as possible (excluding the playing field data, but it did have to read that..). I vaguely remember it getting down to a ridiculous 30-something bytes or so. Again.. Thanks for the link. Definite reading material for a quiet moment.. Bye, Arno.