Timeline for Must answers be given as SOURCE code, or is machine code acceptable? [duplicate]
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| Jun 21, 2017 at 10:41 | history | closed | FryAmTheEggman CommunityBot Gryphon caird coinheringaahingMod | Duplicate of How are bytes counted in assembly? | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 3:43 | answer | added | Nathan Merrill | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 23:33 | comment | added | nitro2k01 | @FryAmTheEggman If that is your opinion, make it an answer, not a comment! | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 23:32 | comment | added | FryAmTheEggman | What stops someone from using a machine to write regular source code? Plenty of answers already do that. Also, why should you stop someone from manually writing machine code? Sorry, but I can't see any way this results in something useful besides what we already have. | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | nitro2k01 | @FryAmTheEggman Right. To try to explain my intuition: Entries are judged based on length. However, the machine code is most likely not written directly by the contestant in a hex editor, but is likely compiled output of assembly language code. Ie, the length is based not on the code written by the contestant, but on a secondary output. My intuition is that we should primarily judge the length of code output from a human. | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 23:18 | comment | added | FryAmTheEggman | I don't see any reason to assume a discussion is necessary. Machine code is a bunch of bytes that represent a program, just like source code is. | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:57 | history | edited | nitro2k01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 205 characters in body |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:50 | comment | added | nitro2k01 | @FryAmTheEggman Not a duplicate. I'm asking if machine code (or other non-source code) is acceptable, at all. I don't see that, specifically, addressed in the question you linked. The top answer, however, assumes without further discussion that machine code is acceptable. | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:29 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:11 | comment | added | Pavel | You can run Linux ELF files on TIO | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:11 | comment | added | Pavel | Machine code is fine, but then your language is something like x86 machine code (OS) | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 21:58 | history | asked | nitro2k01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |