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Can you or someone expand further on that? Which platforms are trying to use segmented addressing, and what benefits does it have?
by mrpopo 3y ago
Can you or someone expand further on that? Which platforms are trying to use segmented addressing, and what benefits does it have?
- Joker_vD 3y agoCHERI 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 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-941.pdf
- saagarjha 3y agoC 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.