pal16bxcl is an array of 256 dwords, not bytes: src/endmem.asm:NEWSYM pal16bxcl, resd 256 While at it fixes off-by-4 out of bounds exit. Detected by _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3: *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated #7 0x08057c14 in memset (__len=2, __ch=255, __dest=) at ...-glibc-2.38-23-dev/include/bits/string_fortified.h:59 #8 clearmem () at initc.c:1461 --- a/src/initc.c +++ b/src/initc.c @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ extern unsigned char vidmemch8[4096]; extern unsigned char pal16b[1024]; extern unsigned char pal16bcl[1024]; extern unsigned char pal16bclha[1024]; -extern unsigned char pal16bxcl[256]; +extern unsigned char pal16bxcl[1024]; extern unsigned char SPCRAM[65472]; unsigned char *SPCState = SPCRAM;