Author:

• Name: Szymon Rusinkiewicz
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make all

To use:

    ./smr

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges’ remarks:

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? :-)

Author’s remarks:

The world’s smallest self-replicating program. Guaranteed. Produces a listing of itself on stdout.

Primary files

• smr.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• smr.orig.c - original source code
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 1994_smr.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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