I do of course understand what you mean. > At first it seems to work fine It so happens that I have been working in OS- and low level areas for many years, an

I do of course understand what you mean. > At first it seems to work fine It so happens that I have been working in OS- and low level areas for many years, and independently am also a pretty early adopter of C++. I have a reflex of routinely giving a quick glance to the link map, and am frequently dumping assembly for areas of code I have doubts in. All this to say that reading 'it seems to work fine' in the context of OS development kind of provokes a skin reaction in me.