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Re: armv8 does not respect personality ADDR_LIMIT_3GB



On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:00 PM Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> ...
> This fixnum idea in gcl is broken.  It must go away.  Pointers are for
> addresses and nothing else.

+1. Tagged pointers caused a lot of problems porting some packages to
Aarch64. Tagged pointers were blocking a number of web related
packages. It also caused a number of CVEs, like CVE-2020-9391.

Jeff


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