🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm working on a machine description for a word-addressable 16-bit CPU (the
architecture is similar to the 1750A, but with a completely different
instruction set).

I need to be able to support 8-bit chars, and char pointers.  The CPU has
instructions to access bytes, but I will need to implement 2-word pointers
to do this.  As far as I can tell, there is currently no support in gcc for
this.  So I am planning on adding the support myself.  However, I would
like to get input from other gcc developers before I get too far into this.
I would like to implement it in a fairly general way (i.e. pointers of an
arbitrary type can be of an arbitrary size), since I suspect there are
other machines (and possibly certain language features/options, like tags)
that could use this capability.  If anyone has thought about this before,
or if you have ideas about ways to do it or not to do it, I would
appreciate hearing about them.

Rick