make all
./smr
./try.sh
Nearly every year, one or more people would submit what they claimed was the world’s smallest self reproducing program. While the sizes of these submissions varied, a quick glance would reveal that they were too big, until this entry came along.
While strictly speaking, smr.c is not a valid C program, it is not an
invalid C program either! Some C compilers will compile an empty file into a
program that does nothing. But even if your compiler can’t, the build
instructions supplied with this entry will produce an executable file. On most
systems, the stdout
from the executable will exactly match the original
source.
In the future, the contest rules will specify a minimum size that is one character larger than this entry, forever eliminating this sort of program from the contest. After all, how many variations can one make on this entry? :-)
The world’s smallest self-replicating program. Guaranteed.
Produces a listing of itself on stdout
.