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> 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! -- Yours sincerely, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii

Hello, As far as I know, there is no MPX pass in LLVM (though the x86-64 backend already declares MPX registers and instructions). I wonder if anyone is currently working on the LLVM pass for MPX instrumentation, similar to Pointer Checker in gcc. If yes, could anyone elaborate on the status and accessability to other researchers? And if any help is needed? Prof. Santosh Nagarakatte, the author