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From: olsen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeff Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.sources
Subject: Re: Small introspective program
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.231230.17301@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 23:12:30 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern University
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In article <AB2MbsdCB6@s514.ipmce.su> leo@s514.ipmce.su writes:
>	This is an introspective program in C.
>char*a="char*a=%c%s%c;main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}";main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}
>	Do you know a shorter program?

sure...

*a="*a=%c%s%c;main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}";main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}

I tried it with MSC 6.0 and whatever the default cc is on a encore
multimax.  GCC doesn't appear to like it, though.

Jeff Olsen
olsen@eecs.nwu.edu