directive declares the symbol <code>runtime·profileloop</code> and the instructions
that follow form the body of the function.
The last instruction in a <code>TEXT</code> block must be some sort of jump, usually a <code>RET</code> (pseudo-)instruction.
(If it's not, the linker will append a jump-to-itself instruction; there is no fallthrough in <code>TEXTs</code>.)
After the symbol, the arguments are flags (see below)

The importing of packages, by construction, guarantees that there
can be no cyclic initialization dependencies.
More precisely:
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Given the list of all packages, sorted by import path, in each step the first
uninitialized package in the list for which all imported packages (if any) are
already initialized is <a href="#Package_initialization">initialized</a>.