printbf vs systemf

printbf

Brainfuck interpreter inside printf (by HexHive)

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a brainfuck interpreter supporting linux syscalls with an example HTTP server (by ajyoon)

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printbf		systemf
	Project
6	Mentions	1
586	Stars	225
1.7%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.1
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Brainfuck	Language	Assembly
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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printbf

Posts with mentions or reviews of printbf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-01.

Few lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2023

Somewhat related to this, printf alone in a loop is Turing-complete, by using %-directives like that. It was introduced in “Control-Flow Bending: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity” (Carlini, et al. 2015) and the authors have implemented Brainfuck and an obfuscated tic-tac-toe with it.
[0]: https://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/15SEC.pdf
[1]: https://github.com/HexHive/printbf
[2]: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe
Controling a Super-Intelligent AI is Impossible, Says Researchers
1 project | /r/tech | 14 Jun 2023

No shit, you can write a brainfuck interpretter in printf statements: https://github.com/HexHive/printbf
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest 2020 winners
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2021

https://github.com/HexHive/printbf
well this is a brainfuck interpreter inside printf. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of c-to-bf transpilers.

systemf

Posts with mentions or reviews of systemf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-08.

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest 2020 winners
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2021

https://github.com/ajyoon/systemf

What are some alternatives?

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OWASP-Xenotix-XSS-Exploit-Framework - OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework is an advanced Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability detection and exploitation framework.

xenocryst - A brainfuck interpreter written for memcpy(). Read the paper (or source) for more details.

printf-tac-toe - tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf

elvm - EsoLangVM Compiler Infrastructure

turing - A reference implementation of Alan Turing's 1936 paper, On Computable Numbers

google-ctf - Google CTF

turing_machine - A simple C program to emulate two symbol turing machine

libwheel - Generic data structures for the C programming language with (near) zero overhead.

color-flood-for-amstrad-cpc - A puzzle game for 2 to 4 player. Written in portable C as an experiment: can a program with non-trivial algorithmic logic be compiled and run on an 8-bit platform? Answer: yes.