From: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:54:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add the help text for 'position independent executable' code build
X-Git-Tag: 1_19_0~284
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26b80e8fe36510c8ec97ae07d9e16e53de32a4af;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git

Add the help text for 'position independent executable' code build

Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index b49181732..3361e7381 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -466,7 +466,10 @@ config PIE
 	default n
 	depends on !STATIC
 	help
-	  (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
+	  Hardened code option. PIE binaries are loaded at a different
+	  address at each invocation. This has some overhead,
+	  particularly on x86-32 which is short on registers.
+
 	  Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 
 config NOMMU