Re: __init poisoning for i386, too

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> 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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