Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:19:11 +0100 |
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Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> 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.
Well it tells you EINVAL no matter what is wrong.
That's roughly similar to a compiler whose only error message is 'WRONG'. Or the ed school of error reporting.
That makes any checking it does barely useful.
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