Author:

• Name: Andrea Marangoni
  Location: IT - Italian Republic (Italy)
  
  

To build:

make all

To use:

./marangon

Judges’ remarks:

The object is to refill the table with 5’s, by incrementing or decrementing numbers as needed. It is the side effects that get you into trouble. If you are not careful, you may find things “at 6’s and 7’s”. :-)

NOTE: Some compilers have had trouble optimizing this entry.

NOTE: Some systems need to compile with -ltermcap as well as -lcurses.

NOTE: The original winning source marangon.orig.c, found in the archive directory, assumed that exit(3) returns a value which cause problems for some systems where exit(3) returns a void. The file marangon.c avoids this problem.

Author’s remarks:

It starts off by creating a table with number 5 in all places. The CPU melts the numbers and you must return them in original state. When you increase a number, all the other eight numbers next to it decrease and vice-versa.

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