I've been busy since the last update working on libc functions. I think I'm about 20% to 30% done with that so far. Sadly, I've found two more problems in the compiler.

The first was a missing comma in the 16-bit "+=4" optimization. That was just a dumb mistake, easily fixed.

The second was a bit trickier. When using constant strings, it was possible to cause a code misalignment, resulting in a non-working image. The problem here was that the ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN macro, which I copied from some other archetecture, was no good for the TMS9900. I needed two-byte alignemts, but the macro ignored all alignments less than four. This effectively turned off all code alignment, which caused this problem. All working now. Yay!