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SoftwareSerial runs out of "text" space on ATtiny

I have an ATtiny and am trying to send a very large byte array stored in a separate .h file over SoftwareSerial:

for (int i=0; i<numElements; i++) {
 softSerial.println(myList[i]);
}

I imagine it will very slow, which is fine, but I'm getting a cryptic error when compiling:

Firmware.ino.elf section `.data' will not fit in region `text'

It seems that this is due to the println() command running out of memory for some reason – if I comment out the println() command everything works fine. How to fix this?

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Thanks – 140kb is the ascii representation of all those bytes. I had read that it gets crunched down to binary on compile, and was trying to see if it fit. Didn't realize the array would be ignored until invoked by println().

JeffThompson
– JeffThompson

2018年03月02日 17:47:09 +00:00
Commented Mar 2, 2018 at 17:47

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