JDWTopGuy's Journal: Even more pathetic...

The boredom meter was hitting dangerous levels again, so I turned the C program I posted in my last JE into a self-compiling, self-running program.

Basically, wrote a simple bash script that extracts the C program from itself (tail -n 17 $0 > tmp.c), then compiles the program, removes the temporary file, and runs the C program.

Isn't that thrilling?

Sounds like you're having fun.

[Feztaa]

I'm not that bored, I just got a raise and a promotion, so I'm pretty happy.

Re:Sounds like you're having fun.

[JM Apocalypse]

Woo! $1.50 an hour to all!

Re:Simple ...

[JDWTopGuy]

Wow. j00 R h4v3 73h m4d 5k!115!

I think I'll implement the non-pointer one. I want portable, pointer-free code. ;)

Re:Simple ...

[JDWTopGuy]

This is the same AC that you can't make friends with, by the way.

Get an account, dude. :) BTW, nothing personal with the "dumbass" comments, just being a jerk, that's all.

The difference between your shell script and mine is, mine saves the executable, doesn't use a temporary directory, and it uses the CC environment variable (defaulting to GCC if it's empty).

I'd post it but I'm too lazy.

Re:Simple ...

[JDWTopGuy]

I'm no shell script genius, so there probably is a shorter way to do this, but this is what I did:

if [ "$CC" = "" ]; then
export CC="gcc"
fi

I was thinking of calling strip to reduce the size of the binary after compiling, but I don't know how portable that is.

Re:Shell Scripting 101

[JDWTopGuy]

Thanks for the tips. I will rewrite my shell script when I have a chance... And add auto-stripping.