triplegolf - not only the source code length counts!

Question

The goal of this challenge is to write a program where the length of the following three are exactly the same:

• the length of the source code
• the length of the output it prints to the standard output
• the length of the compiler warnings it generates with the (unmodded) compiler of your choice

The winner is the shortest code to fulfill all three criteria, and has to be at least 1 character long.

To spice things up, if the output has less than three different characters, it gets a 5 point penalty added to the length for each one (so +10 if only a single type, +5 for two).

(Newlines count either as 1 or 2 characters, your choice, but it has to be consistent through all three criteria. Leading and trailing white-spaces are ignored in all lines in all three criteria)

_{In case of equal score, the one printing the most interesting result (instead of garbage) is the winner.}

Answer 1

Bash, 23 characters

Error:

bash: /: Is a directory

Source:

echo       $0-$01234;/;

Output:

/bin/bash-/bin/bash1234

Brainf*ck, 32 characters

This code executes for about 3 seconds and stops and displays the following error and output.

Error:

bff: out of memory (-2058691272)

Source:

+++++[......-]..+[>>>>>>>>>>>>-]

Output: (Hexdump)

0505 0505 0505 0404 0404 0404 0303 0303
0303 0202 0202 0202 0101 0101 0101 0000

C, 35 characters

Warning:

b.c:1:30: warning: division by zero

Source and Output:

main(){system("cat "__FILE__)/0;;;}

PHP, 50 characters

Warning:

PHP Warning:  Division by zero in /tmp/3 on line 1

Source and Output:

<?php echo (0/0).''.file_get_contents(__FILE__);?>

Answer 2

C - 48 chars

main(i){while(++i<49)putchar(i);putchar('\z');}

Note: includes a final (Unix-style) newline.

Output from gcc a.c reads:

a.c:1:41: warning: unknown escape sequence '\z'

The output from a.out is mostly non-printing chars, so here's what it looks like after piping through hexdump:

00000000: 0203 0405 0607 0809 0A0B 0C0D 0E0F 1011  ................
00000010: 1213 1415 1617 1819 1A1B 1C1D 1E1F 2021  .............. !
00000020: 2223 2425 2627 2829 2A2B 2C2D 2E2F 307A  "#$%&'()*+,-./0z

Answer 3

JavaScript, 63 66

!function x(){console.log(x+'...');eval(Array(33).join('$'))}()

The output is:

function x(){console.log(x+'...');eval(Array(33).join('$'))}...

In Chrome, the error is:

ReferenceError: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is not defined

Answer 4

Zsh, 20 bytes

<<<   $-$_$_$_$_$_
[

The problem we face here is alluded to in a comment above: Zsh prints the program name in addition to the line number before every error. The solution here uses a one-character filename to abuse this. I've wrapped it up in a helper script to show exactly what it prints, and used wc -c on stderr, stdout, and the source file.

Output: 569Xcatcatcatcatcat followed by a newline
Errors: s:[:2: ']' expected followed by a newline

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EDIT: Alternate 20 byte solution with no file restriction:

<<<$-$-$-$-$_>&1 >&2

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Zsh, zsh -x, 10 bytes

<<<$_$_$_

-x flag enables xtrace. This again requires a single-character filename. Try it online!

Zsh zsh -JNTwEDY, 12 bytes

<<<$->&1 >&2

Shortest -flag answer with no filename requirement. Sets more flags, and $- prints them all. Try it online!

Answer 5

Visual Basic .NET, 185

Gee, vbc is pretty verbose with its compilation warnings. Anyway, the code is this:

Public Module Main
    Public Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine(New String("a"c,185))
    End Sub

    Public Function A()
        'This is actually just padding.
        'Hi
    End Function
End Module

(Note that they're supposed to be tabs, not spaces.)

The output is this:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

And the compiler warning is this:

warning BC42105: Function 'A' doesn't return a value on all code paths. A null reference exception could occur at run time when the result is used.

    End Function
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

(This time, it's actually four spaces, not tabs.)

Answer 6

JavaScript (Firefox 54), 34 bytes

alert((f=function(x)1234)(56)+f+f)

Outputs:

1234function(x)1234function(x)1234

And it sends this warning to the browser console:

expression closures are deprecated

It looks like this in my copy of Firefox Developer Edition (54.0a2). It may work in other versions of Firefox as well.

Answer 7

Ruby, 48 characters

IO=1;puts ?a*48;# let's make it 48 bytes long :)

Outputs

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Warns

r.rb:1: warning: already initialized constant IO

(the file is r.rb, I removed the path, if you run it from irb, you'll get (irb):1: warning...)

There is the warn method in Ruby, but it just outputs its arguments to $stderr, making it look less like a warning.

Answer 8

Python, 57 bytes

Other interpreters may display the warning differently. This was only tested to work on TIO.

from warnings import*
print("prt"*19)
warn("Warning...!")

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Output

prtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprtprt

Warning

.code.tio:3: UserWarning: Warning...!
  warn("Warning...!")

Note that the leading spaces are not counted toward the byte count. If the leading spaces were not ignored, this could be done in 51 bytes.

Answer 9

Javascript (ES6), 32 30 bytes

Screen(console.log(Function));

prints

ƒ Function() { [native code] }

in Chrome, and then throws

TypeError: Illegal constructor

My original 32 byte solution:

(x=y=>console.log(x+!0+10)||z)()

first, prints

y=>console.log(x+!0+10)||ztrue10

And throws the error

ReferenceError: z is not defined

Answer 10

Perl 6, 10 bytes

dd say 1e9

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Prints 1000000000 to STDOUT, and Bool::True to STDERR. Both produce a trailing newline, but trailing whitespace is ignored in this challenge. dd is a Rakudo specific debugging function

Answer 11

VBA, 39 Bytes

Not sure if this qualifies, given the compiler constraint, but:

Input: (in the immediate window)

For i=1 To 39:a=a & Chr(i):Next:Print a

*_{The output includes non-printing characters that don't play well in this window.}