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Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension

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modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
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@ -406,6 +406,13 @@ that it creates (which is unused here). It aborts with a fatal error
if the module could not be initialized satisfactorily, so the caller if the module could not be initialized satisfactorily, so the caller
doesn't need to check for errors. doesn't need to check for errors.
\strong{Note:} Removing entries from \code{sys.modules} or importing
compiled modules into multiple interpreters within a process (or
following a \cfunction{fork()} without an intervening
\cfunction{exec()}) can create problems for some extension modules.
Extension module authors should exercise caution when initializing
internal data structures.
\section{Compilation and Linkage \section{Compilation and Linkage
\label{compilation}} \label{compilation}}