Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:22:13 +0200 (MEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: __init poisoning for i386, too |
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > Overwrite __init section so calls to __init functions from normal code > > are catched, reliably. I wonder if this should be configurable... but > > it is configurable on x86-64 so I copied it. Please apply, > > No, I'll change it to just enable the thing unconditionally.
And can't such things be done in architecture-neutral code, to avoid code duplication and out-of-sync code among different architectures?
The magic value that corresponds to an illegal instruction (as suggested by wli) is arch-dependent, of course.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert
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