Re: Explicit pointer provenance APIs for CHERI

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:34:17 +0000

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Alexander Ziaee writes:

> Can we massage it into memory(7)? I think that'd be the most obvious pla=
ce.
> The draft is very focused on just memory statistics, but I think it woul=
dn't hurt
> it to tweak that a little bit.
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18768

As long as there is a cheri(7) manualpage to get people started...


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