GCC Developers Potentially Deprecating Intel MPX

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GCC Developers Potentially Deprecating Intel MPX

24 May 2017, 07:20 AM

Phoronix: GCC Developers Potentially Deprecating Intel MPX

It was just with GCC 6 that MPX support was flipped on with Intel's Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) just premiering with Skylake CPUs. But now GCC developers are thinking about potentially deprecating this feature...

GCC Developers Potentially Deprecating Intel MPX - Phoronix

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24 May 2017, 08:29 AM

If have a good sanitize support (include ARMv7 and ARMv8) it's ok. Else it's the unique way to have a good protection.

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