[Cryptech Tech] Alpha board strategy

[Ben Laurie]

On 21 February 2015 at 02:38, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:
>
>>> This is your corollary that LLVM sucks at least two, possibly three orders of
>>> magnitude less than gcc.
>>
>>and supports the socs in question?
>
> Depends which SoC, if it's ARM then most likely, if it's Cheri then probably
> not,

Does! OK, not upstreamed, but CHERI uses LLVM to build FreeBSD, etc,
and gets extra containment in the process (e.g. malloc returns a cap
that exactly covers the block, making overflow impossible).

> but I also don't think going with that is a very good idea.

Pah. Any particular reason?