Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Posted Mar 28, 2022 23:33 UTC (Mon) by dullfire (guest, #111432)In reply to: Pointer tagging for x86 systems by abufrejoval
Parent article: Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Maybe you should take another look at protected mode segmentation then.
It's very very much like a capabilities bases permissions system (and very very much unlike the 8086 segmentation that was only for getting around the 16-bit limit).