reloading a C module

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <p6qhf746t8o.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
Martin von Loewis  <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>chris_barker at my-deja.com writes:
>
>> Is this supposed to work? 
>
>Reloading of C modules is not supposed to work; all hell would break
>lose if there are still objects allocated which had their code in the
>old copy of the library.

Perhaps reload(x) should raise an exception in this case?
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