Author:

• Name: Andrea Marangoni
  Location: IT - Italian Republic (Italy)

To build:

    make all

To use:

    ./marangon

Judges’ remarks:

The object is to refill the table with 5s, by incrementing or decrementing numbers as needed. It is the side effects that get you into trouble. If you are not careful, you may find things “at 6s and 7s”. :-)

NOTE: Some compilers have had trouble optimizing this entry.

NOTE: Some systems need to compile with -ltermcap as well as -lcurses.

NOTE: The original winning source marangon.orig.c assumed that exit(3) returns a value which cause problems for some systems where exit(3) returns a void. The file marangon.c avoids this problem.

Author’s remarks:

It starts off by creating a table with the number 5 in all places. The CPU melts the numbers and you must return them to the original state. When you increase a number, all the other eight numbers next to it decrease and vice-versa.

Primary files

• marangon.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• marangon.orig.c - original source code

Secondary files

• 1992_marangon.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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