Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:49:53 +0200 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references |
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>But then why not simply lose the __exit (and .exit.*) altogether? Because >__exit becomes redundant in the suggested changed semantics -- just mark >all the cleanup code as __init too (when it's built-in, the only >callsite for the >cleanup code would be from the startup code in .init.*, and when modular, >__init and __exit lose all relevance anyway).
Because of the non-builtin case (__init still has significance in the modular case, it's only __exit that doesn't). For the builtin case, __init could certainly be identical to __exit.
Jan
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