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Message-Id: <E1IsZSP-0006MY-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:48:13 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: paulus@...ba.org (Paul Mackerras)
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
gregkh@...e.de, mucci@...utk.edu, eranian@....hp.com,
wcohen@...hat.com, robert.richter@....com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:
>
> Well you must mean something different by "strong typing" from the
> rest of us. Strong typing means that the compiler can check that you
> have passed in the correct types of arguments, but the compiler
> doesn't have any visibility into what structures are valid in netlink
> messages.
That's strong static typing. Netlink is 90% strong static
typing plus 10% strong dynamic typing. That is, it'll tell
you at run-time if you give it the wrong netlink attribute.
The types within each netlink attribute is checked at compile
time.
Cheers,
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