One of my mentors, Greg Chesson, would have loved that. In fact, I have a lot of friends that will love that. Thanks for the link. And if you are a systems guy and need more systems guys, I would hire the author in a heartbeat. My kinda guy. On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 06:14:42PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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.

I must admit my initial reaction was "Why is everyone so excited about this? A subset-of-C compiler in 512 lines is a nice exercise but nothing really spec... Wait, _bytes_?" A beautiful hack indeed, and nicely written up as well. P. Dixit Clem Cole (2023-05-24 21:06):