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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Subject: Re: What if?
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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On 2004.12.13, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <1101984361.28965.10.camel@tara.firmix.at>
> By author:    Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >=20
> > The unanswered question is: What does it actually buy?
> >=20
>=20
> Type-safe linkage, mainly.  That actually would be a nice thing.
>=20

And let the compiler do all what now is done by hand wrt driver methods,
inheritance, specialized methods and so on, with a 1000% increase in securi=
ty
because compiler does not forget to do thinks, like we do ;)

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Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.10-rc2-jam4 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-1mdk)) #4


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