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fooker 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A simplified model of Fil-C

There’s a new wave of hardware supporting fat pointers natively, so you are perhaps dismissing it too early.

Also filc isn’t just fat pointers.

vzaliva 5 months ago [–]

Hardware-supported capability-based architectures like CHERI are great. I am lilttle skeptical about adpotion prospects of software-only implementation of fat pointers for languages like C and C++.

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