Portable Self-Replicating C Contest

[Norman Diamond]

In article <12629 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
[about the rule that contest entries must use trigraphs]
> It makes the problem more challenging.  Note that a program which satisfies
> all of the rules except this one is not self-reproducing after a naive
> conversion to trigraphs, because `printf("??=")' will output `#', not `??='.

Yes indeed, such conversions take place even in strings.  I wonder how
such programs execute in environments that don't have a '#' character.

Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp at relay.cs.net)
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