More on the core dump competition

[Donn Seeley]

My face is red!  (It normally is that color, but you can assume
there are a few more zits than usual.) I forgot to credit the
REAL originators of the competition, down!north and down!honey
(honey at down.FUN?  Hey, it was only a joke!).  They have a 2-byte
program that makes the 4.1 BSD PCC dump core...

Peter Honeyman suggests that you find this program by exhaustive
search.  If you don't have a 4.1 BSD PCC (or are disinclined to
perform an exhaustive search),  a spoiler will appear at the end of
this article.

No one sent me a System n PCC core dumper.  Either the System n PCCs
never dump core, or else I struck a major apathy lode out in ATTBL
country.  (Since the 4.2 BSD C compiler appears to be the same as the
System III C compiler, I'm a bit suspicious of (at least) the System
III compiler's virtues.) I am told that some of the valid looper
programs still cause the System V PCC to complain, so the PCC still
isn't quite perfect.

Happy dumping,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn at utah-cs.arpa
40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W    (801) 581-5668    decvax!utah-cs!donn

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