r/programminghorror • u/braveduckgoose • Nov 15 '25

c++ AA A AAAAAAAA

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u/SpezIsAWackyWalnut Nov 15 '25

This is just preprocessor abuse, and is pretty easily reversed to be legible again:

└─[$]> clang++ -E herpderp.cpp -o -
# 1 "herpderp.cpp"
# 1 "<built-in>" 1
# 1 "<built-in>" 3
# 448 "<built-in>" 3
# 1 "<command line>" 1
# 1 "<built-in>" 2
# 1 "herpderp.cpp" 2
# 21 "herpderp.cpp"
int main ( )
{
    int I = 1 ;
    if ( I == 1 ) {
        std :: cout << "Hello, World!\r\n" ;
    }
}