I was disappointed to discover that you don't actually use gcc or awk. However, misdirection is a valid tool in obfuscation. ;-)

Anyway here is a breakdown of the code. With reformatting it looks like this: 

    $_='gcc 92 !$* % "awk in I$: ar& $:a"';

    foreach (/(\S)/g) {
        $;.= substr(unpack("B*",pack(n,unpack("c",$_))),-4);
        $;.= "\n" if !(++$i%5);
    }

    $_=$;;
    y;0;\40;;
    y;1;#;;
    print;

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Substituting $str for $; and making some other changes: 

    $_='gcc 92 !$* % "awk in I$: ar& $:a"';

    foreach $char (/\S/g) { # Capturing parens not needed
        $str.= substr(unpack("B*",pack(n,unpack("c",$char))),-4);
        $str.= "\n" if !(++$i%5);
    }

    $_=$str;
    tr/0/\40/;
    tr/1/#/;
    print $_;

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Looking at the main substution in detail for the first character "g": 

    $str.= substr(unpack("B*",pack(n,unpack("c",$char))),-4);
    
    unpack("c",$char) # is the same as
    ord $char         # 103

    pack(n, ...       # packs 103 as a little-endian int

    unpack("B*", ...  # Packs it as a binary string: 0000000001100111

    substr(..., -4)   # Get the last 4 chars:        0111

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After these substitutions $str looks like this: 

    01110011001110010010
    00010100101001010010
    00010111101110011110
    10010100101000010010
    01100100101000010010

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The transliteration could be done in one pass:     tr/01/ #/; Applying the transliterations gives: 

     ###  ##  ###  #  # 
       # #  # #  # #  # 
       # #### ###  #### 
    #  # #  # #    #  # 
     ##  #  # #    #  #

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I liked the joke about wcc and agk. :-) There is an example of a JAPH that does use an embedded awk (of sorts) here: JAAH

--
John.

In reply to Re: embedded gcc and awk by jmcnamara
in thread embedded gcc and awk by Len

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