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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2015-04-20 16:27:53 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-04-24 11:07:33 +0100
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ref-manual: Updates to ELF binary QA warning - review changes
Applied some review edits from Paul. Fixes [YOCTO #7630] (From yocto-docs rev: 064fa763686f5ddaccba4a7201757f2a6fc8636c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -464,11 +464,18 @@ can be found then it should be implemented. I can't find one at the moment.
464 <filename>.text</filename> sections. 464 <filename>.text</filename> sections.
465 This situation can result in a performance impact 465 This situation can result in a performance impact
466 at runtime. 466 at runtime.
467 <note><title>Tip</title> 467 </para>
468 If you do experience runtime performance issues, 468
469 you could try assigning "-fPIC/-fpic" to 469 <para>
470 <filename>gcc</filename>. 470 Typically, the way to solve this performance issue is to
471 </note> 471 add "-fPIC" to the compiler command-line options.
472 For example, given software that reads
473 <link linkend='var-CFLAGS'><filename>CFLAGS</filename></link>
474 when you build it, you can add the following to your
475 recipe:
476 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
477 CFLAGS_append = " -fPIC "
478 </literallayout>
472 </para> 479 </para>
473 480
474 <para> 481 <para>