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SubjectRe: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news
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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.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.

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