Re: [PATCH, MPX, 2/X] Pointers Checker [2/25] Builtins

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 10/23/13 16:31, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 02:41 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, did you consider and/or discuss with Richard whether or not
> > to make these target-dependent or target-independent builtins?  I realize it's
> > a bit problematic with Richard being involved during the NDA portion and
> > someone else during the review/integration portion, but that's unfortunately
> > where we are.
>
> I suggested that they be target independent.
>
> I suggested that there was nothing in MPX that couldn't be
> done generically, if slower, on non-MPX hardware.
The primary concern is that while we have some builtins that are 
disabled for a subset of targets, I think this is the first significant 
class of builtins that are only available on a single target.

It's a bit of a slippery slope as we clearly don't want to move to a 
model were we're regularly allowing classes of builtins that are only 
implemented for a single target.

What saves the say with this stuff is from what I can gather (and which 
you've confirmed), someone ought to be able to build a pointer bounds 
checking implementation on top of this w/o using MPX hardware.

Ironically removal of mudflap came up in a different thread yesterday :-)

Jeff