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"Link Step Failed" error
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While developing a code for moving LED display using 16F886 MCU, compiler fails to build the code and returns error report as
"Error - section 'MAIN_PROG' can not fit the section. Section 'MAIN_PROG' length=0x00001020
Errors : 1
Link step failed."
Earlier I used 16F72 MCU for this purpose. But as the Program Memory of 16F72 is 2K, for a longer message to display, I thought to use 16F886 which has 8K of Program Memory and 368 Data Memory. But upto a specific length of message put in Data Table, the code builds successfully.
Beyond that length , the code does not build and the above error message returns. Memory Usage gauge shows 2066 while Total program memory is 8192.
I am using MPLAB v8.43 and assembly language.
Please help me to sort out the problem.
swapan
Friends
While developing a code for moving LED display using 16F886 MCU, compiler fails to build the code and returns error report as
"Error - section 'MAIN_PROG' can not fit the section. Section 'MAIN_PROG' length=0x00001020
Errors : 1
Link step failed."
Earlier I used 16F72 MCU for this purpose. But as the Program Memory of 16F72 is 2K, for a longer message to display, I thought to use 16F886 which has 8K of Program Memory and 368 Data Memory. But upto a specific length of message put in Data Table, the code builds successfully.
Beyond that length , the code does not build and the above error message returns. Memory Usage gauge shows 2066 while Total program memory is 8192.
I am using MPLAB v8.43 and assembly language.
Please help me to sort out the problem.
swapan
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