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Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:39:45 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:04:50 -0400
>
> On 15-08-27 10:26 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> > On 15-08-27 10:09 AM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
> >> Would it make sense to say what it can handle? Multiples of 8? Powers of 2? Any number?
> >>
> >> "Any number" (like 27, or 60) is probably found only in historic machines, but I remember DSPs with 24 bit memory.
> >>
> >> paul
> >
> > It's multiples of 8. It would be good to add this precision I think.
> >
> > What about adding: "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bytes." ?
>
> Err, it should be "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bits.", not bytes.
I suggest to leave a single sentence reworded thusly:
* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
whose memory is addressable in units of any integral multiple of 8 bits.