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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: What if?
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By author:    Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
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> 
> The unanswered question is: What does it actually buy?
> 

Type-safe linkage, mainly.  That actually would be a nice thing.

	-hpa