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Brainfuck interpreter inside printf

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 7 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-12-28 · latest 2025-01-07

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  1. …that printf() is Turing complete and wrote a first person shooter in 13kB of Javascript. https://github.com/HexHive/printbf https://github.com/carlini/js13k2019-yet-another-doom-clone
    comment by basementcat · 2025-01-07 · in A minimax chess engine in regular expressions
  2. …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
    comment by thaliaarchi · 2023-07-01 · in Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
  3. That code is wrapped in a loop - https://github.com/HexHive/printbf/blob/master/src/pbf_pre.c...
    comment by moonchild · 2021-01-09 · in Best of show – abuse of libc
  4. …this. [0] That printf allows for this kind of Turing complete control flow is well known [1]. [0] https://github.com/HexHive/printbf [1] http://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/15SEC.pdf
    comment by shakna · 2021-01-09 · in Best of show – abuse of libc
  5. 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.
    comment by hahajk · 2021-01-08 · in Best of show – abuse of libc
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    story by pcr910303 · 2019-12-04 · 1 comment
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    A printf based Brainfuck Interpreter (2017)
    story by genuinebyte · 2019-04-19 · 0 comments
  8. https://github.com/HexHive/printbf/blob/master/src/pbf_pre.c...
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2017-12-21 · in A Brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement
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    A Brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement
    story by Cieplak · 2017-12-20 · 20 comments
  10. Reminds me of the turing complete interpreter lurking in libc's printf. https://github.com/HexHive/printbf
    comment by peterwaller · 2016-12-31 · in Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
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    Brainfuck interpreter inside printf
    story by vanni · 2016-12-16 · 0 comments
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    Printbf – Brainfuck interpreter in printf
    story by hanumantmk · 2016-12-15 · 0 comments
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    Brainfuck interpreter inside printf
    story by jaybosamiya · 2016-12-14 · 0 comments
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    Printf is Turing-complete (repo from 32C3 talk)
    story by ojno · 2015-12-28 · 1 comment