Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Self-reproducing C programs Message-ID: <4988@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 18:58:27 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4988 Posted: Mon Oct 1 18:58:27 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 07:31:20 EDT References: <46@ism780b.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 4 On the UNIX System V VAX pcc, the iteration converges rather quickly to produce a one-line fixed point (something like: junk.c: line 1: syntax error ). It is certainly true that wordy compilers can diverge.