Thompsons self duplicating program
Sjoerd Mullender
sjoerd at vu44.UUCP
Fri Aug 31 19:16:39 AEST 1984
We have been able to squeeze out 4 more bytes from the shortest
self reproducing program until now. Here it is:
char*p="char*p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);
This one is 76 characters long. Of course it does not end with a
newline. If you play dirty, you can substitute 'int' for 'char*'
(if sizeof (int) == sizeof (char *)), or better still (but not with
the Ritchie C compiler), just delete 'char*'.
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Sjoerd Mullender
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&
Robbert van Renesse
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