6224 2014-04-24 10:52:30 +0000 Binaries sometimes contain empty TEXTREL segment, causing QA warnings 2014-07-30 11:31:25 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain 1.7 x86 Multiple VERIFIED DUPLICATE 6104 Undecided normal --- 1 ross.burton laurentiu.palcu alexandru.c.georgescu bluelightning meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher raj.khem --- Regression (Used to work) No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 42971 0 ross.burton 2014-04-24 10:52:30 +0000 Sometimes (haven't been able to identify the cause) binaries are built with relocatable text segments that are in fact empty. This causes the QA warning to kick in: WARNING: QA Issue: ELF binary '/data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/flex/2.5.38-r0/packages-split/flex-ptest/usr/lib/flex/ptest/test-c++-multiple-scanners/test-c++-multiple-scanners' has relocations in .text WARNING: QA Issue: ELF binary '/data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/util-linux/2.24.1-r0/packages-split/util-linux/bin/more.util-linux' has relocations in .text WARNING: QA Issue: ELF binary '/data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/coreutils/8.22-r0/packages-split/coreutils/bin/sync.coreutils' has relocations in .text $ objdump -p /data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/coreutils/8.22-r0/packages-split/coreutils/bin/sync.coreutils|grep TEXTREL TEXTREL 0x00000000 The segment is present, but empty. scanelf also agrees this isn't right: $ scanelf -qT /data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/coreutils/8.22-r0/packages-split/coreutils/bin/sync.coreutils scanelf: scanelf_file_textrels(): ELF /data/oc/work/i586-oe-linux/coreutils/8.22-r0/packages-split/coreutils/bin/sync.coreutils has TEXTREL markings but doesnt appear to have any real TEXTREL's !? Would the presence of relocatable text segments cause a performance hit on loading even if empty (so we should fix gcc), or does this have no performance hit so we should check for empty segments in the QA check? 42976 1 bluelightning 2014-04-24 15:01:07 +0000 Duplicate of 6104 although it is useful to have the extra info. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6104 *** 44829 2 alexandru.c.georgescu 2014-07-30 11:31:25 +0000 verified as per above comments