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by ysnp 277 days ago
https://saaramar.github.io/memory_safety_blogpost_2022/ is a nice article which goes into this topic for MTE in the past.
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And of note, the Apple implementation basically forces the invariants documented in the author's talk:

* use synchronous exceptions (“precise-mode”), which means the faulted instruction cannot retire and cause damage

* re-tag allocations on free