aoc-2019-c

Advent of Code 2019 Solutions in C
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      1--- Day 2: 1202 Program Alarm ---
      2
      3On the way to your gravity assist around the Moon, your ship computer beeps angrily about a "1202
      4program alarm". On the radio, an Elf is already explaining how to handle the situation: "Don't
      5worry, that's perfectly norma--" The ship computer bursts into flames.
      6
      7You notify the Elves that the computer's magic smoke seems to have escaped. "That computer ran
      8Intcode programs like the gravity assist program it was working on; surely there are enough spare
      9parts up there to build a new Intcode computer!"
     10
     11An Intcode program is a list of integers separated by commas (like 1,0,0,3,99).  To run one, start
     12by looking at the first integer (called position 0). Here, you will find an opcode - either 1, 2, or
     1399. The opcode indicates what to do; for example, 99 means that the program is finished and should
     14immediately halt. Encountering an unknown opcode means something went wrong.
     15
     16Opcode 1 adds together numbers read from two positions and stores the result in a third position.
     17The three integers immediately after the opcode tell you these three positions - the first two
     18indicate the positions from which you should read the input values, and the third indicates the
     19position at which the output should be stored.
     20
     21For example, if your Intcode computer encounters 1,10,20,30, it should read the values at positions
     2210 and 20, add those values, and then overwrite the value at position 30 with their sum.
     23
     24Opcode 2 works exactly like opcode 1, except it multiplies the two inputs instead of adding them.
     25Again, the three integers after the opcode indicate where the inputs and outputs are, not their
     26values.
     27
     28Once you're done processing an opcode, move to the next one by stepping forward 4 positions.
     29
     30For example, suppose you have the following program:
     31
     321,9,10,3,2,3,11,0,99,30,40,50
     33For the purposes of illustration, here is the same program split into multiple lines:
     34
     351,9,10,3,
     362,3,11,0,
     3799,
     3830,40,50
     39
     40The first four integers, 1,9,10,3, are at positions 0, 1, 2, and 3. Together, they represent the
     41first opcode (1, addition), the positions of the two inputs (9 and 10), and the position of the
     42output (3).  To handle this opcode, you first need to get the values at the input positions:
     43position 9 contains 30, and position 10 contains 40.  Add these numbers together to get 70.  Then,
     44store this value at the output position; here, the output position (3) is at position 3, so it
     45overwrites itself.  Afterward, the program looks like this:
     46
     471,9,10,70,
     482,3,11,0,
     4999,
     5030,40,50
     51
     52Step forward 4 positions to reach the next opcode, 2. This opcode works just like the previous, but
     53it multiplies instead of adding.  The inputs are at positions 3 and 11; these positions contain 70
     54and 50 respectively. Multiplying these produces 3500; this is stored at position 0:
     55
     563500,9,10,70,
     572,3,11,0,
     5899,
     5930,40,50
     60
     61Stepping forward 4 more positions arrives at opcode 99, halting the program.
     62
     63Here are the initial and final states of a few more small programs:
     64
     65
     66 - 1,0,0,0,99 becomes 2,0,0,0,99 (1 + 1 = 2).
     67
     68 - 2,3,0,3,99 becomes 2,3,0,6,99 (3 * 2 = 6).
     69
     70 - 2,4,4,5,99,0 becomes 2,4,4,5,99,9801 (99 * 99 = 9801).
     71
     72 - 1,1,1,4,99,5,6,0,99 becomes 30,1,1,4,2,5,6,0,99.
     73
     74
     75Once you have a working computer, the first step is to restore the gravity assist program (your
     76puzzle input) to the "1202 program alarm" state it had just before the last computer caught fire. To
     77do this, before running the program, replace position 1 with the value 12 and replace position 2
     78with the value 2. What value is left at position 0 after the program halts?
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