[catblast]

Good for a beginner effort, but its not really all that convoluted or obfuscated. The problem is that 90% of the obfuscation is in the removal of whitespace. Pretty print the final thing, and it isn't so bad (the 2nd to last listing is pretty easy to follow). Things like 0-1 or 13*1 + 3, etc add some noise but are not particularly hard to parse or understand, the ternary is ugly but it's sequential so nothing up the sleeve there, the memcpy are just a noisy one character assignment. The author should review the IOCCC submissions posted earlier. Like holloway.c.