The error is not related to demo.elf. Running qemu-system-avr without a program (no "-bios program.elf" option) also yields the same error:
$ ./qemu-5.1.0/avr-softmmu/qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 VNC server running on 127.0.0.1:5900 qemu-system-avr: execution left flash memory Aborted (core dumped) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903752 Title: qemu-system-avr error: qemu-system-avr: execution left flash memory Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I compiled QEMU 5.1 from source with target avr-softmmu. Running demo.elf from https://github.com/seharris/qemu-avr-tests/blob/master /free-rtos/Demo/AVR_ATMega2560_GCC/demo.elf (linked from https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-avr.html) yields the following error: $ ./qemu-5.1.0/avr-softmmu/qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 -bios demo.elf VNC server running on 127.0.0.1:5900 qemu-system-avr: execution left flash memory Aborted (core dumped) I compiled QEMU on Ubuntu Server 20.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 10.2.0-13ubuntu1) 10.2.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1903752/+subscriptions
