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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:13:00 -0000
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> On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wr=
ote:
>=20
> 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?=20=20
>>>=20
>>> "Any number" (like 27, or 60) is probably found only in historic machin=
es, but I remember DSPs with 24 bit memory.
>>>=20
>>> 	paul
>>=20
>> It's multiples of 8.  It would be good to add this precision I think.
>>=20
>> What about adding: "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bytes=
." ?
>=20
> Err, it should be "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bits.",=
 not bytes.

Sounds good.  So I guess I won't be doing a cdc6600-gdb target handler.  :-)

	paul