Ian Phillipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 10:21:58 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > open$%;print<0>
> > is indeed the shortest possible Perl quine.
>
> No. The shortest possible Perl quine is, of course, the file which I've
> attached. It also works in C. (This isn't original - I can't remember
> who pointed it out)
It's not a conforming ISO C program:
<hal5 89 [17:12] ~ >touch null.c
<hal5 90 [17:13] ~ >gcc -pedantic -Wall null.c
null.c:1: warning: ANSI C forbids an empty source file
/usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I think there are 2 separate issues here. One is that translation
units may not be empty; the other is that a whatever-the-name-is-for-
-a-non-embedded-implementation must define an appropriate main()
function.
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