The International Obfuscated C Code Contest 2020 winners

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  • printbf

    Brainfuck interpreter inside printf

  • 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.

  • google-ctf

    Google CTF

  • For those interested in more Turing complete format strings, look no further than the "sprint" challenge from this years Google CTF: https://ctftime.org/task/12834. It's sprintf in a loop this time and the program simulates a maze: https://github.com/google/google-ctf/tree/master/2020/quals/...

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  • xenocryst

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

  • That was my approach for an analogous program that uses memcpy instead of printf. I didn't go with the jit-style you describe, however. If you're curious here's how I setup the syscalls https://github.com/jcande/xenocryst/blob/master/src/gadgets.... and here's the main loop https://github.com/jcande/xenocryst/blob/master/src/exec.c#L...

  • systemf

    a brainfuck interpreter supporting linux syscalls with an example HTTP server

  • https://github.com/ajyoon/systemf

  • elvm

    EsoLangVM Compiler Infrastructure

  • You are looking for ELVM: https://github.com/shinh/elvm/

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