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15 years ago

Error: quartus_map ended unexpectedly

Hi there, I'm running Quartus II 10sp1 on ArchLinux. . When I'm trying to compile LIBRARY IEEE; USE IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL; ENTITY my_and2 is PORT(A, B: IN STD_LOGIC; C: OUT STD_LOGIC); ...
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14 years ago

Holy cow this bug just wasted a lot of my time, thank you so much for posting about it.

On Quartus 10.1 SP1, running quartus_map with special characters in /etc/issue will cause a segfault. Running quartus_map with an empty /etc/issue will cause quartus_map to run forever.

I cannot fathom why an FPGA technology mapper needs to read the system's /etc/issue file. If you are trying to figure out our OS/distro, there are about 1,000 other sensible ways to do this.