That is grotesque, but I suspect that ken's compilers could be made to
handle arbitrarily-long input lines without too much effort, based on
related work I've done in the past.
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it would seem more satisfying to write a gcc-to-c preprocessor.
even that doesn't always help. observe the following result from such
preprocessing (which caused 8c to choke, having set the maximum length
of a line of C code to be no greater than 32K characters):
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/ffmpeg.gif
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