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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references
    >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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