Methinks you were targeting some wierd-ish ISA that had near/far addressing and a larger memory space than the but core could address directly. Those have all s

Methinks you were targeting some wierd-ish ISA that had near/far addressing and a larger memory space than the but core could address directly. Those have all sorts of quirks needed to make code work properly, quirks GCC probably never bothered to implement or optimize for. It's also probably why it never worked. Oh... you have a pointer? That's nice, but this is a near pointer and the data is outside of how much it can express.