On Thu, May 23, 2024, 20:31 Martin Uecker via Liaison <
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> 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.
>

Can you define what a "true integer type" is and why you think uintptr_t on
cheri isnt one?

Thanks


> Martin
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