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

[Richard Henderson]

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.

E.g. there's no reason why bounds couldn't be packed into a
double-word integer, and the checking builtins completely
outlined into a runtime library.

I suggested that the optimization done on the bound type
would help a generic mudflap replacement.


r~