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> 
>> Tangent: why are these nop instead of 0xcc? These bytes aren't 
>> executed
>> ever are they?
> 
> Because that's what the compiler gets us through 
> -fpatchable-function-entry.

Is it useful to get the compiler to emit 0xcc with 
-fpatchable-function-entry under any circumstance? I can probably change 
that quickly if needed/useful.