Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019)

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	Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019) (ioccc.org)
	10 points by icwtyjj 98 days ago

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I thought it would print the hash of its binary :/

That's not too difficult. You can #embed CC, invoke it on the program's source code via the exec functions, and hash the result.

It's even easier to exec a hash of argv[0] and print it.