Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes

Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10T18:16:40Z

> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:01:40 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> > We could use the terminology that is already in use: "half-words" for
> > 16 bits and "words" for 32 bits. Would that be OK?
>
> When you know what is the size of the data unit you are referring to that's fine. But
> we need another word or expression for when we don't know it.

"Addressable memory unit" sounds good to me, provided that we explain
somewhere what that means.