My first (only) attempt at a quine, in C

quine.c

/* 
 * This is the annotated version of my first attempt at a Quine
 * 
 * I wonder if it is still considered a quine if it is annotated? :) 
 * You'll find that if you compile and run this, the output is equivalent
 * to this code, so I'm still calling it a quine.
 * 
 * Anyway, if you don't know what a Quine is, enlighten yourself at
 * the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
 */
#include <stdio.h>

/* s contains the text representation of the program as a whole */
char*s="#include <stdio.h>\n"
		"char*s=\"%s\",\n"
		"*t=\"%s\";\n"
		"%s\n"
		"int main() \n{\n\treturn printf(s,destrip(s),destrip(t),t);\n}",

/* t contains the text description of the destrip function, below.
I take advantage of the fact that the C compiler automatically concats "string1" "string2"
to make the code more readable. If you compile it, you lose the formatting */
*t="char*destrip(char*s){"
	"\n\tstatic char b[2][512];"
	"\n\tstatic int c = 0;"
	"\n\tchar *p;"
	"\n\tfor(p=b[c++];*s;s++)"
		"\n\t\tif(*s == '\\n') {*p++='\\\\';*p++='n';}"
		"\n\t\telse if(*s == '\\t') {*p++='\\\\';*p++='t';}"
		"\n\t\telse if(*s == '\"') {*p++='\\\\';*p++='\"';}"
		"\n\t\telse if(*s == '\\\\') {*p++='\\\\';*p++='\\\\';}"
		"\n\t\telse *p++=*s;"
	"\n\t*p=0;"
	"\n\treturn b[c-1];\n"
"}";

/* The destrip() function's purpose is to do the opposite of what the C lexical
analyser does when it reads string literals. That's to say, it replaces "\n" with "\\n" 
and "\\" with "\\\\" and so on */
char*destrip(char*s){
	
	/* The buffer in which we'll be working */
	/* ugly but effective; you should have a string in b[] for each time you intend to call destrip() */
	static char b[2][512]; 
	static int c = 0; /* with which b[] are we currently working */
		
	char *p;
	for(p=b[c++];*s;s++)
		if(*s == '\n') {*p++='\\';*p++='n';}
		else if(*s == '\t') {*p++='\\';*p++='t';}
		else if(*s == '\"') {*p++='\\';*p++='\"';}
		else if(*s == '\\') {*p++='\\';*p++='\\';}
		else *p++=*s;
	*p=0;
	return b[c-1];
}

/* Anyway, here's the main program. Compare with s above */
int main() {
	return printf(s,destrip(s),destrip(t),t);
}