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The best love letters are written in C (apologies to the Rust fans) (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If anyone wants to actually run this, here ya go:

          #include              <stdio.h>
      short i=0;long          b[]={1712,6400
    ,3668,14961,00116,      13172,10368,41600,
  12764,9443,112,12544,15092,11219,116,8576,8832
,12764,9461,99,10823,17,15092,11219,99,6103,14915,
69,1721,10190,12771,10065,16462,13172,10368,11776,
14545,10460,10063,99,12544,14434,16401,16000,8654,
12764,13680,10848,9204,113,10441,14306,9344,12404,
  32869,42996,12288,141129,12672,11234,87,10086,
    12655,99,22487,14434,79,10083,12750,10368,
      10086,14929,79,10868,14464,12357};long
        n=9147811012615426336;long main(){
          if(i<0230)printf("%c",(char)((
            0100&b[i++>>1]>>(i--&0x1)*
              007)+((n>>(b[i>>001]>>
                7*(0b1&01-i++)))&1
                  *main(111))));
                    return 69-
                      0b0110
                        ;}

Bonus points if you can deobfuscate it!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If your love letter isn't given in the form of highly obfuscated C, is it really a love letter? I don't know, but what I do know is that I love you! <3

[–] Redkey 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I don't know if this will work or even compile, but I feel like I'm pretty close.

long main () {
    char output;
    unsigned char shift;
    long temp;
    
    if (i < 152) {
        shift = (i & 1) * 7;
        temp = b[i >> 1] >> shift;
        i++;
        output = (char)(64 & temp);
        output += (char)((n >> (temp & 63)) & main());
        printf("%c", output);
    }

    return 63;
}
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's it with some amount of de-obfuscation:

#include <stdio.h>
short i = 0;
const long b[]
	= { 0xd60,  0x3200,  0x1ca8, 0x74e2, 0x9c,   0x66e8, 0x5100,  0x14500,
		0x63b8, 0x49c6,  0xe0,   0x6200, 0x75e8, 0x57a6, 0xe8,    0x4300,
		0x4500, 0x63b8,  0x49ea, 0xc6,   0x548e, 0x22,   0x75e8,  0x57a6,
		0xc6,   0x2fae,  0x7486, 0x8a,   0xd72,  0x4f9c, 0x63c6,  0x4ea2,
		0x809c, 0x66e8,  0x5100, 0x5c00, 0x71a2, 0x51b8, 0x4e9e,  0xc6,
		0x6200, 0x70c4,  0x8022, 0x7d00, 0x439c, 0x63b8, 0x6ae0,  0x54c0,
		0x47e8, 0xe2,    0x5192, 0x6fc4, 0x4900, 0x60e8, 0x100ca, 0x14fe8,
		0x6000, 0x44e92, 0x6300, 0x57c4, 0xae,   0x4ecc, 0x62de,  0xc6,
		0xafae, 0x70c4,  0x9e,   0x4ec6, 0x639c, 0x5100, 0x4ecc,  0x74a2,
		0x9e,   0x54e8,  0x7100, 0x608a };
const long n = 9147811012615426336;
long
main ()
{
	if (i < 152)
	{
		char shifter;
		if (i % 2 == 0)
		{
			shifter = 8;
		}
		else
		{
			shifter = 1;
		}
		char adder1 = (b[i >> 1] >> shifter) & 64;

		char adder2 = (n >> (b[i >> 1] >> shifter)) & 63;

		char to_print = (char)adder1 + adder2;
		i++;
		main ();
		printf ("%c", to_print);
	}
	return 63;
}

Needless to say, the return value doesn't matter any more. So you can change it to 0 or 69 depending upon your preferences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And more de-obf:

#include <stdio.h>

const char addarr1[]
	= { 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
		0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x0,
		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
		0x0,  0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
		0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x0,  0x0,  0x0,  0x0 };

const char addarr2[]
	= { 0x9,  0x26, 0x20, 0x39, 0x2f, 0x35, 0x32, 0x20, 0x2c, 0x2f, 0x36, 0x25,
		0x20, 0x2c, 0x25, 0x34, 0x34, 0x25, 0x32, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x2e, 0x27,
		0x34, 0x20, 0x27, 0x29, 0x36, 0x25, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x29, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x34,
		0x28, 0x25, 0x20, 0x26, 0x2f, 0x32, 0x2d, 0x20, 0x2f, 0x26, 0x20, 0x28,
		0x29, 0x27, 0x28, 0x2c, 0x39, 0x20, 0x2f, 0x22, 0x26, 0x35, 0x33, 0x23,
		0x21, 0x34, 0x25, 0x24, 0x20, 0x3,  0x2c, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x20, 0x29,
		0x34, 0x20, 0x32, 0x25, 0x21, 0x2c, 0x2c, 0x39, 0x20, 0x21, 0x20, 0x2c,
		0x2f, 0x36, 0x25, 0x20, 0x2c, 0x25, 0x34, 0x34, 0x25, 0x32, 0x3f, 0xa,
		0x9,  0x20, 0x24, 0x2f, 0x2e, 0x27, 0x34, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x2e, 0x2f, 0x37,
		0x2c, 0x20, 0x22, 0x35, 0x34, 0x20, 0x37, 0x28, 0x21, 0x34, 0x20, 0x9,
		0x20, 0x24, 0x2f, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x2e, 0x2f, 0x37, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x20,
		0x34, 0x28, 0x21, 0x34, 0x20, 0x9,  0x20, 0x2c, 0x2f, 0x36, 0x25, 0x20,
		0x39, 0x2f, 0x35, 0x21, 0x20, 0x3c, 0x33, 0xa };

int main ()
{
	for (int i = 0; i < 152; i++)
	{
		char adder1 = addarr1[i];

		char adder2 = addarr2[i];

		char to_print = (char)adder1 + adder2;

		printf ("%c", to_print);
	}
	return 63;
}

I guess I should have kept the recursion and straightened it out in the next step, but now that it's done...

The next step will just have an array of the characters that would be printed, so I'll leave it here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of Caesar cipher you made?

fIy uo rolevl teet rsi'n tigev nnit ehf ro mfoh gilh yboufcstadeC ,sii terlayla l vo eelttre ? Iod'n tnkwo ,ub thwtaI d onkwoi shttaI l vo eoy!u< 3%

[–] Redkey 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whoops! When I looked at the second time that the shift value is calculated, I wondered if it would be inverted from the first time, but for some reason I decided that it wouldn't be. But looking at it again it's clear now that (1 - i) = (-i + 1) = ((~i + 1) + 1), making bit 0 the inverse. Then I wondered why there wasn't more corruption and realized that the author's compiler must perform postfix increments and decrements immediately after the variable is used, so the initial shift is also inverted. That's why the character pairs are flipped, but they still decode correctly otherwise. I hope this version works better:

long main () {
    char output;
    unsigned char shift;
    long temp;
    
    if (i < 152) {
        shift = (~i & 1) * 7;
        temp = b[i >> 1] >> shift;
        i++;
        output = (char)(64 & temp);
        output += (char)((n >> (temp & 63)) & main());
        printf("%c", output);
    }

    return 63;
}

EDIT: I just got a chance to compile it and it does work.