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by oguz-ismail 284 days ago
Cool project. Unlike tcc and cproc though kefir doesn't seem very good at handling big arrays. This

    $ kefir -c - <<x
    int a[] = {
    $(seq 10000000 | tr '\n' ,)
    };
    x
allocates gigabytes of memory and eventually crashes WSL on my machine.
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I have addressed compiler inefficiency in the sibling comment. This is indeed a problem. Empty arrays of such size should be compile-able (there is sparse representation for arrays). However, I would say that this use case is not particularly practical, at least in none of the projects from my test suite this has been an issue.
Good work either way. Congrats!