From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15340 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2015 16:35:38 -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 15330 invoked by uid 89); 10 Apr 2015 16:35:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:35:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B32831AC8B; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3AGZYWp011641; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:35:35 -0400 Message-ID: <5527FBD6.4090809@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:35:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Marchi , Eli Zaretskii CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes References: <1428522979-28709-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <83d23dg1bd.fsf@gnu.org> <55269D1A.3080902@ericsson.com> <83vbh5e04f.fsf@gnu.org> <5526E87D.3020109@ericsson.com> <838ue0v1vy.fsf@gnu.org> <5527F3BC.3030005@ericsson.com> In-Reply-To: <5527F3BC.3030005@ericsson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00388.txt.bz2 On 04/10/2015 05:01 PM, Simon Marchi wrote: > The term we are looking for is one for a single memory unit, regardless of its size. That suggests "addressable memory unit". Looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_%28computer_architecture%29 calls it "Unit of address resolution". Thanks, Pedro Alves