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I pity that MPX is gone as well, this makes x86/x64 lose to ARM in hardware memory tagging.

While it was buggy, Intel doesn't seem keen in bringing in a replacement.



The approach is fundamentally flawed.


MPX sure, that doesn't prevent bringing a new one, otherwise in a couple of years Intel/AMD will be the only ones left standing without hardware memory tagging support.


I mean, having played with MPX for use in a JIT, it was slower than just manually bounds checking.


With less security guarantees too.




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