strict aliasing question

[Mike Stump]

On Nov 11, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> You probably can't, in the case of a shared library, but you  
> probably could for a static library.

I think I agree, though, a JIT can peer past a shared boundary as  
well.  A non-JIT can as well, but it has to have some mechanism to  
unpeer across the boundary and notice updates to the other side of  
the boundary.  I don't think we'll be peering across a shared  
boundary in the next 10 years, but, maybe one day.

> How will you distinguish these two cases, when all you see is  
> "foo.a" on the command line?

You don't, not for foo.a.