"Limitations" section of profiler docs is incorrect

[ncoghlan]

BPO	1066607
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[ncoghlan]

From the Python 2.4 What's New:

"The profile module can now profile C extension functions."

The "Limitations" section of the profiler documentation
still indicates that time spent in C functions is
assigned to the calling Python function. Thanks to Nick
Bastin's work, this is no longer the case.

[rhettinger]

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Fixed.

See Doc/libprofile.tex 1.50 and 1.48.2.1