Author:

• Name: Dave Decot
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make all

NOTE: there is an alternate version which will only work if you have an old enough compiler or a compiler that supports -traditional-cpp. The original code was fixed in 2023 to not require this.

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 1984/decot in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./decot

Alternate code:

This alternate code, the original, requires a compiler that supports -traditional-cpp or an old enough compiler. If you have such a compiler you can use this version.

Alternate build:

    make alt

Notice that one CANNOT have the usual ${CFLAGS} along with the -traditional-cpp in all systems. This is why the Makefile only has the latter option as the others conflict with it.

Alternate use:

    ./decot.alt

Judges’ remarks:

This program prints out what looks like a fragment of C code.

Is this a bug or is this a feature? To help choose the judges offer this one comment: understand remarks!

Historical remarks:

Some new (in 1984) compilers disliked line 15 of the original source, so we changed it from:

    for(signal=0;*k * x * __FILE__ *i;) do {

to:

    for(signal=0;*k *x * __FILE__ *i;) do {

To see what we mean look at the original source file at line 15 which has the way it once was. The alternate code is the version that has this modification but at line 16. The fixed version has instead:

    for(signal=0;*k *= * __FILE__ *i;) do {

plus a line above it that had to be added.

Author’s remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.

Primary files

• decot.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• decot.alt.c - alternate source code
• decot.orig.c - original source code

Secondary files

• 1984_decot.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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