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Because MPX is a terrible feature that no compiler vendor knows how to make use of. By contrast, ARM PAC is relatively simple and obvious in operation. Killing
by pcwalton 8y ago
Because MPX is a terrible feature that no compiler vendor knows how to make use of. By contrast, ARM PAC is relatively simple and obvious in operation.
Killing MPX is the right decision.
- pjmlp 8y agoI trust your experience, having only read papers about it. But then I would expect the feature to be replaced by something else instead of being dropped as such. Solaris with SPARC pointer validation turned on is a much secure platform in spite of being written in C.