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This challenge is related to the C language. Note that challenges that require the answers to be in a specific language are generally discouraged.

13 votes

Create a C program that takes the longest period of time to compile in gcc

Here's a riff of the exponential-preprocessor-expansion theme which does something minimally interesting: computes two approximations to pi by series methods and compares with both the value in math.h …
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14 votes

Create a C program that takes the longest period of time to compile in gcc

\ SUBSCOPE2(A,C) SUBSCOPE2(B,C) SUBSCOPE2(A,B); \ } #define SUBSCOPE24(A,B,C,D) { \ S1*D##1=default_ctor(NULL,sizeof(char),default_cctor,default_dtor); \ S2 C##2; default_ctor(&C##2,sizeof … ); \ S8*A##8=default_ctor(NULL,sizeof(S7),default_cctor,default_dtor); \ SUBSCOPE120(A,B,C,D,E) SUBSCOPE120(A,B,C,D,F) SUBSCOPE120(A,B,C,E,F); \ SUBSCOPE120(A,B,D,E,F) SUBSCOPE120(A,C,D,E,F …
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Poisson random number generator

Taken from the wikipedia article which credits Knuth (and notes that there are implementations with better time performance) this code is a complete program implementing a minimal test scaffold. The c …
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40 votes

Tips for golfing in C

Unlike the c++ equivalent the operator does not formally yield an lvalue, but some compilers (notably gcc) will let you get away with it, which is a nice bonus. …
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25 votes

Tips for golfing in C

Any part of your code that repeats several times is a candidate for replacement with the pre-processor. #define R return is a very common use case if you code involves more than a couple of functio …
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