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pjc50 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Some programming language ideas

Possibly the nearest to applying capabilities to C is pointer authentication: https://lwn.net/Articles/718888/

(This is one of those times where the C memory model as described in the spec is very different from the mental PDP-11 that C programmers actually use to reason about)

dwattttt 5 months ago | [–]

CheriBSD is definitely closer: https://www.cheribsd.org/. Or one of the other CHERI projects.

naasking 5 months ago | [–]

C's file descriptors are capabilities.

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