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0 pointsJoker_vD2y ago0 comments

CHERI project [0]. Look at figure 2.1: it's an improvement and further development of the segments of yore but the origins are quite visible.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-941.pdf

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saagarjha2y ago

C supports CHERI quite well. It’s modern languages used to flat address spaces and 64-bit pointers that are having a hard time, because they defined a lot of “obvious” behaviors that the standard leaves flexible.

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