Re: Explicit pointer provenance APIs for CHERI

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Brooks Davis writes:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 10:11:36AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> > Specifically, I'd like a manpage which defines something top level for=
 these
> > terms and link to that manpage from manpages that talk about pointer
> > provenance and anything else that leads into CHERI related stuff.
>
> Lacking an obviously better place I've added a section to arch(7) and
> linked it from the various manpages.  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57812

Not bad, but I dont think there's any way around having a proper CHERI(7)
manual page too ?

It doesn't have to be long, but it has to be there.

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