IBT/BTI instructions and D compilers

Brian Callahan bcallah at openbsd.org
Mon Jul 10 13:08:18 UTC 2023


On Monday, 10 July 2023 at 12:46:14 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> On 11/07/2023 12:16 AM, Brian Callahan wrote:
>> All good. I'm just asking about the status of IBT/BTI 
>> instructions being emitted by DMD and LDC. That's all.
>
> I should give you some feedback however.
>
> When I looked up the appropriate keywords, all I got from 
> Google was all but one completely useless links. The one useful 
> one is by Intel targeting people who are already pretty deep 
> into attack mitigation.
>
> If this is anything to go by, there are no migration 
> guidelines. So not very likely its going to have an 
> implementation by anyone ;)

That's why I asked. I didn't know if Walter had thought about it 
and I figured it was cheap and easy to ask him.


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