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====== Known issues ======

===== gcc-ia16 =====

  * In general, gcc-ia16's handling of far pointers is considered experimental. (In a wswan target context, this means all accesses outside of the console's internal RAM.) Caveat emptor.

==== Bug: Miscompilations involving far function pointers ====

In some cases, when calling pointers from arrays of far function pointers in optimization modes >= -O1, the code will be miscompiled. This is a [[https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16/issues/120|known issue]], with no ETA for a fix.

One can work around this by annotating the affected function to be compiled without optimizations. In particular, one can create a separate function that //only// acts as a wrapper for the function call:

<code C>
__attribute__((noinline, optimize("-O0"))) // https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16/issues/120
void call_to_my_function_table(uint8_t index) {
    my_function_table[index]();
}
</code>

==== Issue: wwitch target and interrupt handlers ====

The wwitch target does not support relocation; as such, far functions (which interrupt handlers have to be) cannot be created in sections other than the default text section. This can be most easily achieved by building with ''-fno-function-sections'' in CFLAGS.