Am Donnerstag, dem 23.05.2024 um 13:22 -0400 schrieb Bjarne Stroustrup via Liaison:
> IMO, CHERI or similar is going to be immensely important in the future
> because it is an obvious and elegant solution to key aspects of the
> heavily emphasized memory safety issues.
>
> Caveat: for my PhD, I worked on a distant ancestor to CHERI pioneering
> hardware memory controls (the CAP).
>
> On 5/23/2024 7:58 AM, Corentin via Liaison wrote:
> > (As an aside, while I understand there are platforms where uintptr
> > would need to be bigger than sizeof(void*)... that's allowed!
> > It's what CHERI seem to be doing
> > https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-947.pdf )


I don't thinks so. CHERI extends the size of a void*
to include space for a capability and uintptr_t then
has the same size to make roundtrips possible.
And uintptr_t in CHERI is not a true integer type.

Martin

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