Stuck at building blinky example: ".text is larger than specified size"

[olalonde]

I recently bought a NRF52840 DK board to teach myself embedded development. I am now following the nRF5 SDK tutorial here:

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fug_gsg_ses%2FUG%2Fgsg%2Fcompile_ses.html&cp=1_0_1_6_2

After opening the blinky project in SES (~/code/nordic/sdk/nRF5_SDK_17.1.0_ddde560/examples/peripheral/blinky/pca10056/blank/ses$), I click "Build > Build blinky_pca10056" and get the following error in the Output tab: ".text is larger than specified size".

I am a bit surprised by this error since I followed all the previous correctly I believe and didn't edit the code at all.

Can anyone explain what this error means and how to fix it?

Thanks.

[olalonde]

I seem to have fixed this issue by right clicking in the left tab Project 'blinky_pca10056' and selecting "Import Section Placement". The file "flash_placement.xml" then appeared under "System Files" in the file tree. I then removed the `size="0x4"`  strings from the file, saved and built the project (no more errors).

[Justin Reina]

Thank you for this fix, this works!

[Aztec_Coder]

yep had the same issue and corrected editing the file. thx dude