Optimization level (Release) in the current esp-idf creates a bug. (IDFGH-12472)

[ghost]

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[nkolban]

If you download a virgin template application and compile/flash it ... does it execute? There is a thought that the output of "make menuconfig" from previous runs may be incompatible with the current. Let me suggest the following.

In your application project, save your current "sdkconfig" file and then delete it (the save was in case we need to restore it). With no current sdkconfig, run "make menuconfig" again and change only those things that may be essential to the running of your app ... it may be none. At the end, you will have a new "sdkconfig". Now run "make clean" and perform a complete rebuild and re-deploy. Does the app still fail?

[nkolban]

Can you run a test with the flash size at the default (2 MB?) ... and without setting "Debug" to "Release"? Where my mind is going is that, at least for me, I have been working fine ... so I'm fishing for what might be distinct in your environment as compared to mine. If we can narrow the puzzle to an "aha ... it works with defaults but when we change XYZ, it breaks".