Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
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>
> 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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