After a four-year hiatus, the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has been announced to resume. The contest is aimed at writing the most obfuscated and difficult to understand code in C. The IOCCC28 event will be the fortieth in the history of the contest, which has been held since 1984. Works will be accepted from January 31 to April 2, 2025. Unlike previous contests, from now on, the use of UTF-8 encoding in the source code is allowed.
The works participating in the competition, on the one hand, should prevent the analysis of the code and understanding of the essence of the problem being solved, but, on the other hand, the code should be interesting and somehow remarkable (the works can be unusually designed or highlight unexpected aspects of the C language). The size of the source code of the program should not exceed 4096 bytes, and the program should be assembled and perform a meaningful action. For example, in past years, various games, an IBM PC emulator, an HTTP server, a text recognition system, a ray tracing engine, a PDF generator were created.
Source: opennet.ru
