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Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
IOCCC Year 2024
Building a 8x8 image requires order of 20 seconds of C-preprocessor time, when running 6 jobs on 4 CPU cores in parallel. This is very understandable when you realize that the 2024/carlini/prog.c is actually emulating the entire by computing the output of each gate in a loop, effectively running the CPU and associated RAM/ROM chips! Depending on the address of a variable, as not all platforms support ASLR, as the single source of pseudo-randomness isn’t a good idea.
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