Self-reproducing C programs

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Tue Oct 2 08:58:27 AEST 1984


On the UNIX System V VAX pcc, the iteration converges rather quickly
to produce a one-line fixed point (something like:
	junk.c: line 1: syntax error
).  It is certainly true that wordy compilers can diverge.



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