This C code should be ILLEGAL. It's also fantastic.

A reverse engineer analyzes obfuscated C code submissions from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) using Ghidra decompiler. The analysis reveals surprising implementations including a Rick Roll animation, a complete Doom game running in a virtual machine, a 3D renderer, an LLM chatbot with multiple personalities, a Vim clone, and other creative programs. The experiment demonstrates both the effectiveness of reverse engineering tools and the ingenuity of obfuscated code techniques.

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