Skip to content

Update PROGMEM.adoc #787

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Nov 7, 2023
Merged

Update PROGMEM.adoc #787

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Language/Variables/Utilities/PROGMEM.adoc
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ When an instruction like :
Serial.print("Write something on the Serial Monitor");
----

is used, the string to be printed is normally saved in RAM. If your sketch prints a lot of stuff on the Serial Monitor, you can easily fill the RAM. If you have free FLASH memory space, you can easily indicate that the string must be saved in FLASH using the syntax:
is used, the string to be printed is normally saved in RAM. If your sketch prints a lot of stuff on the Serial Monitor, you can easily fill the RAM. This can be avoided by not loading strings from the FLASH memory space until they are needed. You can easily indicate that the string is not to be copied to RAM at start up using the syntax:

[source,arduino]
----
Expand Down