From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101577 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 14:11:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 101562 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 14:11:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ausxippc101.us.dell.com Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com (HELO ausxippc101.us.dell.com) (143.166.85.207) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:11:41 +0000 X-LoopCount0: from 10.170.28.40 From: To: CC: , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <0380352E-1706-4A29-BE38-D888F6B969E6@dell.com> References: <1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <83h9nl5ud6.fsf@gnu.org> <55DF11C2.6020303@ericsson.com> In-Reply-To: <55DF11C2.6020303@ericsson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <552D3D73E8EF54488137EB6F79F60E8C@dell.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00790.txt.bz2 > On Aug 27, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Simon Marchi wro= te: >=20 > On 15-08-26 10:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> I think you should drop the second sentence, as it doesn't add any >> useful information and is slightly inaccurate. I think everyone will >> understand what non-8-bits-addressable means. >=20 > Right, thanks. Pushed with second sentence removed. >=20 >=20 > From fd2ae5d6a3a5c4007be45f9b2f325955ac316f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Simon Marchi > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:30:00 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits addressable memory support in NEWS >=20 > I think it would be a good idea to document that gdb now has (basic) > support to read/write memory on architectures with non-8-bits memory. > Hopefully somebody will see it and say "Hey! We can now (more easily) > port GDB to our strange DSP that has 32-bits-addressable memory!" and do > it. Would it make sense to say what it can handle? Multiples of 8? Powers of = 2? Any number?=20=20 "Any number" (like 27, or 60) is probably found only in historic machines, = but I remember DSPs with 24 bit memory. paul