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
> > 
> > The unanswered question is: What does it actually buy?
> > 
> 
> Type-safe linkage, mainly.  That actually would be a nice thing.
> 

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 security
because compiler does not forget to do thinks, like we do ;)

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