Hi, >> The package Interfaces.CHERI provides intrinsic bindings and >> helper functions to allow software to query, create, and >> manipulate CHERI capabilities. > > I'm curious what the motivation for these intrinsic wrappers is, given that > GCC trunk doesn't currently support them. Out of interest, can you share what > the use case for these is?
We share the same Ada frontend with different GCC compilers and contribute it in GCC's master branch. You're correct that this particular change is not useful (yet) with master, but we are testing/using it with a CHERI-aware GCC. Does that answer your question? Marc
