[llvm-dev] Intel MPX support (instrumentation pass similar to gcc's Pointer Checker)

[Dmitrii Kuvaiskii via llvm-dev]

> First, is MPX hardware available now?  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on
> one.

It is available at least in the mobile versions of the recent Intel
Skylake CPUs. I am currently playing with Alienware 15 R2 with the
following CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HK. Interestingly, my
preliminary experiments indicate that adding MPX bounds checking via
Pointer Checker in gcc is usually slower than using software-only
AddressSanitizer.

Thanks for the other pointers!

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Yours sincerely,
Dmitrii Kuvaiskii