| Posted: 10:14pm 18 Oct 2026 |
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RC2: LOAD without ,C bricks the board ("Program damaged: symbol table")
Loading a large program (about 256K with comments) without ,C gives an endless loop:
Error : Program damaged: symbol table
[1034] Sub ?
RESET does not help, only nuke + reflash + restoring the options (A: survived). With ,C it loads fine (136K).
Cause, I think (tag RC2, unchanged in main):
- SaveProgramToFlash() writes the text with symbols first. If the text or SymTableSize() does not fit, exiterror only ends the image with zeros, so the program has symbols but no table.
- PrepareProgram(false) at every prompt -> NameView() -> SymDamaged() -> error() regardless of ErrAbort. That sends it back to the prompt, which errors again, endlessly. The same happens at boot.
Fix idea: erase the slot (or save as text) in exiterror, and treat a symbol image without a table as invalid at boot, like LibraryImageValid().
PicoMitePC3 MMBasic USB RP2350B Edition V7.00.00RC2
OPTION SERIAL CONSOLE COM2,GP8,GP9
OPTION SYSTEM I2C GP20,GP21
OPTION FLASH SIZE 16777216
OPTION COLOURCODE ON
OPTION KEYBOARD GR, 0, 1, 200, 75
OPTION HEARTBEAT OFF
OPTION PICO OFF
OPTION RESOLUTION 640x480 @ 315000KHz
OPTION HDMI PINS 1, 3, 5, 7
OPTION WIFI behofam, *****************, Pico3, DE
OPTION TELNET CONSOLE ON
OPTION SDCARD GP33, GP30, GP31, GP28
OPTION KEYBOARD REPEAT 200,75
OPTION AUDIO I2S GP10,GP22', ON PWM CHANNEL 11
OPTION RTC AUTO ENABLE
OPTION COUNT GP34,GP35,GP36,GP37
OPTION COMPILE ON
OPTION PLATFORM PICO COMPUTER 3
OPTION PSRAM PIN GP47
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