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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014)


After much deliberation, the winners of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition are finally selected. There are two different award categories. The winners of the first category are those...

The winners of the first category are those submissions that produced the largest error with the smallest amount of source code. The bare hands category did not allow for any use of the preprocessor, which lead most people to use recursive or variadic template initiations. We also tested this with Clang, which detects correctly the missing semicolon, after which it anyway tries to evaluate the infinite template recursion and eventually segfaults.

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