Why does Intel® Quartus® report a warning message when using the "initialize memory content" option for an on-chip memory (RAM or ROM) FPGA IP?

Description

Due to a problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 23.4 and earlier, you may see Intel® Quartus® reports below warning message when using the initialize memory content option for an on-chip memory (RAM or ROM) FPGA IP with a HEX file generated from the elf2hex tool:

Memory contents are already initialized at the specified addresses. Overwriting data.

Resolution

The problem has been fixed in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 24.1.

For earlier versions 23.1 and 23.2, please download below patches accordingly:

quartus-23.2-0.44-windows.exe

quartus-23.2-0.44-linux.run

quartus-23.2-0.44-readme.txt

quartus-23.1-0.58-windows.exe

quartus-23.1-0.58-linux.run

quartus-23.1-0.58-readme.txt