MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517081295 A) filed by Arm Limited, Cambridge, U.K., on Aug. 27, for 'tag protecting instruction.'
Inventor(s) include Barnes, Graeme Peter.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Access control circuitry (15), responsive to a memory access request, compares a tag value determined based on a tag portion (40) of an address pointer (42) with an allocation tag (32) associated with the memory location identified by a memory address determined from the address pointer. In response to the comparison indicating a given result, a tag error ...