From: Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>
To: "Marc Poulhiès" <poulhies@adacore.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Daniel King <dmking@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTED] ada: Add CHERI intrinsic bindings and helper functions.
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:00:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJGi98ok0ucRpryK@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230620074700.1252872-1-poulhies@adacore.com>
Hi,
On 20/06/2023 09:47, Marc Poulhiès via Gcc-patches wrote:
> From: Daniel King <dmking@adacore.com>
>
> 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?
Thanks,
Alex
>
> gcc/ada/
>
> * libgnat/i-cheri.ads: Add CHERI intrinsics and helper functions.
> * libgnat/i-cheri.adb: Likewise
>
> Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, committed on master.
>
> ---
> gcc/ada/libgnat/i-cheri.adb | 75 ++++++
> gcc/ada/libgnat/i-cheri.ads | 470 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 545 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 gcc/ada/libgnat/i-cheri.adb
> create mode 100644 gcc/ada/libgnat/i-cheri.ads
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-20 7:47 Marc Poulhiès
2023-06-20 13:00 ` Alex Coplan [this message]
2023-06-20 13:47 ` Marc Poulhiès
2023-06-20 20:21 ` Alex Coplan
2023-06-22 8:18 ` Marc Poulhiès
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