by Oscar Toledo G. Jun/07/2026 I had some free time, and I noticed the 29th IOCCC started. So I decided to code an entry for the contest. If you haven't heard about the International Obfuscated C Code Contest , it is a contest running since 1984 and created by Landon Curt Noll. The objective of this contest is writing an obfuscated C program under certain size limitations specified by the rules. You can see my previous winning entries for the IOCCC in the Contests section . This year the maximum size is 4993 bytes (a little less than 5 kilobytes), and the number of printable characters is 2503. As there are some special rules for printable characters, there is now a tool called iocccsize for checking this. Whenever I say obfuscated C, it is the way of writing C code in a form that does the objective but it isn't clear.…