> Safer with less memory corruption exploits to start with.
ok I admit defeat on this. I can't barely believe I forgot that u_u;
Here some updates on hardware memory tagging from Google regarding future Android hardware.
Microsoft, FreeBSD, ARM collaboration on CHERI
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/10/14/security-analysis...
Oracle with ADI
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61059/gqajs.html
Apple with pointer authentication,
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/preparing...
Fixing C is so beyond hope that Apple, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, ARM are all driving hardware based solutions for memory tagging and pointer validation, while at the same time reducing the use cases for it across their OS stacks.